Oh, so now the US has pivoted to strongman style diplomacy where you rattle your sabre and then ask for concessions? I've bought a fresh carton of eggs last week, Orange Felon and his tech bro boyfriend can have them projectile delivered straight to their stupid mugs.
Empathy and goodwill aren't infinite, like any resource they can be depleted. I really cannot muster enough fucks to give about someone who voted for that turd a second time. Feel sorry for his wife, though.
Fascists are always trying to enforce their idiotic worldview as a display of power - it also has a bonus of distracting people from their disasterous economic policies.
Years of "we're no. 1" and "leader of the free world" propaganda has made Americans delulu to the point where they think their leaders are god-kings that can throw out edicts that will go unopposed. A lot of thus influence was soft power and reliance on allies for re-supplying and repairs, which is currently being dismantled.
This has been a long process, starting with browbeating military allies into the ironically named "coalition of the willing" during the second Iraq war. Now an openly fascist leader has been elected as a US president and is threatening wars of expansion. Interesting times ahead, I guess.
As the saying goes, money can't buy you happiness but a lack of money can buy you a lot of misery. Enough money for a comfortable lifestyle, anything over that and we enter ego validation territory.
Fascists value compliance and ideological fervor over competency, so naturally all fascist led faction experience a competency crisis sooner or later.May this happen more often.
🎵And live in harmony harmony oh Lord!🎵