We all knew that electing Trump would be bad, but I’m still shocked at how bad it’s becoming. His actions are plunging multiple countries all over the world into emergency situations? Disrupting the lives of billions of people? Really great job, Americans. Please do something about it
I’m not sure it’s the scale so much as the speed. We aren’t even halfway through his second term yet.
We all knew that electing Trump would be bad
Americans have been fucking with the Middle East since the end of WW2. You can read about US plans for regime change in Iran going back to Truman - some obviously more successful than others. Trump’s a sloppy fuck-up who can’t actually execute a strategy, sure. But this isn’t his strategy. This invasion has been a neoconservative wet dream for nearly 50 years.
The situation in the Philippines isn’t the consequence of Trumpian foreign policy either. The Philippines has been a de facto US colony since McKinley (with brief interruption by the Japanese). We have them slaved to our merchantilist trade policies, trading their labor for pennies while we sell them overpriced utilities and military technologies at an obscene markup. The spike in energy prices wouldn’t be a problem for them if they had a domestically owned and operated energy industry, rather than being naked to the fluctuations in the spot price of Brent Crude.
Really great job, Americans.
The system is functioning exactly as it was intended. Now the only question is how hard we can squeeze Filipino workers before they push back or get crushed into a paste.
I would, but he’s like really far away and my boss barely gave me my wife’s birthday off.
Sounds like an avenue for another Marcos dictatorship
It’s the Philippines. You’ve had six families passing a dictatorship back and forth between one another for the last 120 years.
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