Marxtrixé

Owner of chicken

[KYO @ThaKidKY0_]

this video kills me all the time why does he have a 3 second realisation of his existence and forgets it a frame after

[Marxtrixé @beo216]

@osarakii @KidNameFingered You do, you matter too, stop bitching

[Elai @elaifresh]

Incredible things are happening on Viet internet

[Creibis @Cre_ibis]

CHECKERS #animation

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

Increasingly, over the course of three decades, Ali Khamenei knew that he was personally in the Great Satan’s sights. This did not daunt him. He felt, always, that he had divine right on his side https://t.co/6NLka10d8Z

[Mike Abrusci @mikeabrusci]

I am feeling blessed to die in a nuclear war for Israel who has brought the world beautiful stuff such as Sodastream, Gal Gadot and I’m sure a third thing

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CIA and Mossad and pedo elite are running some kind of sex trafficking entrapment blackmail ring out of Puerto Rico and caribbean islands. They are going to frame me with a laptop planted by my ex gf who was a spy. They will torture me to death.

[Hernandy D. Morales @hernandy_s]

Ass eaters when they see a tomato in their sandwich

[V4NDH4L @V4NDHAL]

@Diabaahlical He finally leaned left on something

[adam @adoomie03]

charlie kirk didnt die from being shot i ran into the hospital room and punched him

[xavier @nahimdifferent]

they had that boy leaking #CharlieSquirt

[(AV) 🏴 @161StolenLand]

People who see this and think things will get better in 10 years are fascinating

[Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein]

https://t.co/tRmfmlK7r5

[D-money Cash Wizard @Dannyboystwt]

If Megan thee stallion asking me to twerk for her I’m throwing my little boy butt in shapes unknown to the 3D world

[kev - lvl 3 xiaohongshu data collector @justkevooo]

Americans are about to learn why Americans don't have healthcare

[Jean-Luc Mélenchon @JLMelenchon]

Ce soir, on se retrouve sur la chaîne Twitch de @hasanthehun à 20h !

👉 https://t.co/Aqr7iiwx2j

[wyabt @wy4bt]

We must make all people bisexual.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

It's becoming clearer and clearer that we're looking at a seismic shift in the US's relationship with the world, between:

1) The US dismantling its foreign interference apparatuses (like USAID 👇)
2) Marco Rubio stating that we're now in a multipolar world with "multi-great powers in different parts of the planet" (https://t.co/dyHpStHPsO) and that "the postwar global order is not just obsolete; it is now a weapon being used against us" (https://t.co/TPOksRgnwP)
3) The tariffs on supposed "allies" like Mexico, Canada or the EU

This is the US effectively saying "our attempt at running the world is over, to each his own, we're now just another great power, not the 'indispensable nation'."

It looks "dumb" (as the WSJ just wrote) if you are still mentally in the old paradigm but it's always a mistake to think that what the US (or any country) does is dumb.

Hegemony was going to end sooner or later, and now the U.S. is basically choosing to end it on its own terms. It is the post-American world order - brought to you by America itself.

Even the tariffs on allies, viewed under this angle, make sense, as it redefines the concept of "allies": they don't want - or maybe rather can't afford - vassals anymore, but rather relationships that evolve based on current interests.

You can either view it as decline - because it does unquestionably look like the end of the American empire - or as avoiding further decline: controlled withdrawal from imperial commitments in order to focus resources on core national interests rather than being forced into an even messier retreat at a later stage.

In any case it is the end of an era and, while the Trump administration looks like chaos to many observers, they're probably much more attuned to the changing realities of the world and their own country's predicament than their predecessors. Acknowledging the existence of a multipolar world and choosing to operate within it rather than trying to maintain an increasingly costly global hegemony couldn't be delayed much further. It looks messy but it is probably better than maintaining the fiction of American primacy until it eventually collapses under its own weight.

This is not to say that the U.S. won't continue to wreak havoc on the world, and in fact we might be seeing it become even more aggressive than before. Because when it previously was (badly, and very hypocritically) trying to maintain some semblance of self-proclaimed "rules-based order", it now doesn't even have to pretend it is under any constraint, not even the constraint of playing nice with allies. It's the end of the U.S. empire, but definitely not the end of the U.S. as a major disruptive force in world affairs.

All in all this transformation may mark one of the most significant shifts in international relations since the fall of the Soviet Union. And those most unprepared for it, as is already painfully obvious, are America's vassals caught completely flat-footed by the realization that the patron they've relied on for decades is now treating them as just another set of countries to negotiate with.