“The global security network that long distinguished US power took generations to build, but it is now unraveling under Donald Trump’s watch. With traditional partners opting out of the Iran war, we could well be seeing the end of the global primacy that most Americans alive today have always taken for granted.”
Impractically_Dead on
Making America Great Again! Woo!
Fucking magat morons, this (and the bullshit corrupt pedophile con man cult of personality) is exactly what everyone that voted Democrat was voting against.
ExpressLab6564 on
Trump did that!!
Maga thinks isolationism is great. They are going to find the economic realities unpalatable.
Future-Guarantee-573 on
I feel like NATO telling the orange cry baby to pound sand is Ameica’s Suez Canal moment.
We’re through as the world’s dominant power.
almighty_smiley on
Good.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again; Trump isn’t the disease, he’s a symptom. As a collective whole (don’t @ me with that “I didn’t vote for this” line), we allowed the situation we’re in to happen, and the world was always going to respond accordingly. We took our station in the world and the privileges we had as a given, and we’re showing (again, as a collective whole) that we no longer deserve it.
I say that not as the usual “ha ha down with America” crap you see on Reddit. I say that as someone who *genuinely* – if perhaps naively – believes that we can pull out of this. But that starts with recognizing that the US has officially hit rock bottom, and 33% of Americans think things are great.
DoubtSubstantial5440 on
Good
gdazInSeattle on
Consequences
WillfulIgnorance8647 on
>America is collapsing before our eyes
Fixed the title.
Witty_Area8631 on
Atleast we were able to help the Trump family make several billion off of crypto scams. I’d call that a fair trade
AdHopeful3801 on
An annoying use of the passive voice was made.
American hegemony is not passively collapsing, it is being actively thrown away. And it is being thrown away because Americans put this tremendous power in the hands of a set of men who have no interests whatsoever in the fate of the nation, only in their own power and gratification.
freexanarchy on
Hot take, it was going that way for a long time, but no one was really testing it that badly. Maybe it was there after 9/11 but what we did after ruined it, but now it’s gone.
Frustratedtx on
Good. If we get rid of the excuse that the USA has to be the world’s police, then we can cut the military budget in half and spend it on actually helping Americans. We are spending almost a trillion dollars a year to bomb poor people, lets spend that on infrastructure and health care and education.
PM_me_a_nip on
You have to think, what kind of Kompromat do they have on Donald to get him to do all this to this country?
You think Epstein chose Virgina Guiffre because she was a perfect person for his ends?!? Donald is the ideal candidate for foreign interests.
yo_soy_soja on
Good.
The US has been perpetually at war for the entirety of its existence — we’ve conquered Indigenous nations, toppled Latin American democracies on behalf of corporations, directly and indirectly fought for Cold War oligarchs while decimating civilian populations in South East Asia, and most recently perpetuate forever war in the Middle East/West Asia to prop up Lockheed Martin while extracting rare minerals and oil.
I welcome a more multipolar world. We shouldn’t be the sole superpower.
turd_star on
And it pisses me off. Ive said it a thousand times and ill say it a thousand more. We had the world eating out of our hands and these greedy rich fucks had to go and fuck it all up.
XI_Vanquish_IX on
America and Americans deserve the hell coming. Our blind obedience, arrogance, and unbridled ignorance will be our undoing. Make America Great Again? They Made America Hated Again.
ich_bin_alkoholiker on
It’s so funny that they’re framing “American hegemony” as a good thing. The brainwashing is strong here.
Ya_Got_GOT on
*is being sabotaged
truthrises on
Bruh, it’s done collapsed.
Our allies are moving on.
Our president is raiding the Treasury and starting unnecessary, likely unwinnable wars.
Our Congress refuses to do anything about it.
There’s no path forward for the American empire, we got 100 years of privilege and now we’re going to have to figure out how to just be a normal country with allies instead of bullying everyone else around.
It’s going to suck, and at the very least be rather inconvenient even if you’re well off. Say goodbye to that magic passport that gets you in everywhere with no paperwork.
But don’t be too sad, this was always coming, Trump and maga just sped it up by a few decades.
H4NKSCORP10 on
I’m going to say the majority who supported this will conveniently step aside when it becomes obvious just how much irreparable damage their ideology caused and act as if someone else (likely a Democrat) is responsible for for cleaning up the mess. Holding people accountable is the only way we’ll stop this never ending cycle.
alangcarter on
“For decades, US leadership discouraged precisely this behavior, because it was based on the understanding that separate bargains with adversaries would erode the cohesion that alliances require.”
I’m reminded of Merkle explaining to Trump over and over again that he had to negotiate with the EU, not individual member states. He really doesn’t understand alliances, either those of others or those he inherited.
vihuba26 on
Took 10 years of bitching from that orange faced clown and his dumbass red hat supporters to completely destroy our influence and alliances.
Good job MAGA. You own this shit sandwich now eat it.
astrozombie2012 on
We told you it would happen the first time Trump was elected and he significantly destroyed our “soft power” and economic station in the world. Somehow, he gets elected again and people are surprised when he does it again…
Physical_Mirror6969 on
Hey MAGA, this is what you should have been worried about instead of trans people just trying to live their lives.
akestral on
Pathetic use of passive voice. Trump and his cabinet of criminals are actively shoving American hard and soft power out a 16 story window, and they are doing it on purpose. They are traitors and syncophants to the last.
hyperiongate on
Leadership matters.
walksonfourfeet on
American hegemony is <being destroyed by Russia and Israel> right before our eyes
No-Beautiful-259 on
Make American great again is a misspelling of Make Russia great again, because that’s what this chaos is all about.
RIPRIF20 on
Allies for literally ever “we aren’t going to support attacking Iran”
US: we just attacked Iran for no reason and it’s fucked please come help
Allies: no
US: FINE WE ALREADY WON THE WAR ANYWAY IN THE FIRST HOUR
US:……srsly please help
GeologistOriginal800 on
American hegemony is being raped and murdered by Republicans. Always remember this is what Republicans do.
Different_Ad7655 on
Hey well it’s playing into Putin’s hands the real mastermind of this chess game. It makes you really question Donald’s real intentions. Is he truly a puppet of the Kremlin, the politics certainly point in that direction
TheButterPlank on
Is collapsing? Don’t you mean ‘has collapsed’?
Fidel_Costco on
American hegemony started to fade around the Iraq War. It was inevitable even without all the Trump fuckery.
We are living through the end of the empire.
mooseup on
When you step back and look at the bigger picture, it feels like over the past 50 years we’ve seen the gradual degradation of institutions in pursuit of short-term gains—driven largely by the pressure to hit quarterly numbers. That mindset has rewarded cost-cutting, outsourcing, layoffs, and pushing more work onto fewer people, all under the banner of “efficiency.”
Now, many of the same people who operated this way in the private sector are influencing or running parts of the government. They may be generating short-term financial wins, but the concern is that they’re applying a kind of private-equity playbook to public institutions—extracting value while neglecting long-term stability.
The risk is that by the time the damage becomes obvious—when the “infrastructure” of government is weakened or hollowed out—the people who benefited most will have already moved on, insulated from the consequences.
At the same time, those focused on long-term investment in institutions—often labeled as progressives—have been sidelined or dismissed. Their work tends to be less visible and slower to show results, but it’s aimed at strengthening the underlying systems that society depends on.
Meanwhile, voters have increasingly accepted trade-offs that prioritize immediate savings or visible wins over foundational maintenance. It’s like choosing not to repair a crumbling foundation, and instead buying a Ferrari to make the house look impressive—ignoring the structural risks underneath.
Note: Written by me, proofed by AI
ChiGorilla1127 on
The American Hegemon that took over a century and a half to build, but just 2 Trump presidencies to destroy.
Let us hope America doesn’t join Great Britain to become a joke for the rest of the century falling it’s fall from grace.
It’ll take a great president and an actual Congress to course correct this disaster. What are the chances we get both both by 2028?
Stringy63 on
I think that is a large part of the plan of the Plutocrats behind this administration. Dismantle the US government to eliminate all protections that create a middle class.
I_am_BrokenCog on
American *Hegemony* should collapse!
As all hegemony’s should.
The only thing to weep about is that the DNC and their voter/donors have been so apathetic in perpetuating it that they’ve struggled to enact decent alternatives.
Politicians who HAVE been (Sanders, AOC, Gore) are marginalized and denounced. The result is “status quo” politics which history always shows leads to ever increasing extremist polarization.
And, that usually ends in war …
eltjim on
Good—all empires fall for a reason.
RedAndBlackMartyr on
Good. Down with the American Empire!
monkeypickle8 on
Free trade and allies were fun while it lasted
tmdblya on
Collapsing? It’s a demolition job.
philipjfry_ on
This is how you create hyperinflation and collapse – good job MAGA
glitterandnails on
You think inflation is bad, wait till the dollar collapses as a result of the world abandoning America.
AF2005 on
Iran is likely the last straw. While the US is not perfect, that’s still sad to see 80 years of careful diplomacy torched in a year
IntelligentPeace1557 on
Oh dear USA collapsing before our very eyes, that’s what get when you vote in an absolute fucking narcissistic prat like Trump. One self obsessed egomanic has destroyed USA’s standing, credibility and respect in the world. Your Country needs to get this bloke out, he’s got you on the brink that’s going to take a long long time to win back your friends and allies because quite frankly everyone is pissed off with Yanks right now. Because of Trump everyone believes the old adage of Yanks being loud, brash and big headed is true…. Trump did that for you!!
DancingWithAWhiteHat on
Good. Make America have to fight for respect from the world for fucking once.
Mad-farmer on
It’s not collapsing, it is being actively destroyed through Putin’s puppetry of Trump.
NotAlwaysGifs on
“American Hegemony is being intentionally systematically dismantled before our eyes”. FTFY
ccjohns2 on
America is crumbling because America refuses to hold wealthy white men accountable. America hold black people to a higher standard, tell lies about them, and over polices black areas using the media making them the face of crime in America. When in reality it’s always been white men. They commit the most crimes and most of the time wealthy white crimes aren’t even counted as crimes. The only white people that are held accountable are poor ones and that’s not even always.
From town burnings, cannibalism to theft of intellectual property white Americans after the civil war got away with heinous terroristic acts other countries have been invaded over.
Any time wealthy white men commit crimes in banking, business, or another industry they cost people jobs and money they don’t get prosecuted.
Then white leaders stoke up racism to shift the blame onto a different group. Since 2000 the blame shifted from black, to middle eastern, to Hispanics, to black again, a the cycle continues. Every once in a while it’ll the blame with get shifted to China for ( stealing jobs or patents) when in reality white leadership sold off America manufacturing capabilities for personal payouts.
All white people are not to blame but the racist ones, the ones continuously supporting white supremacist leadership conservatives and liberal are a part of the problem.
Most prime example of why America is failing is the videos of doge employees butchering the few unselfish good things America did because they don’t even understand DEI. They got rid of every contract dealing with blacks, Hispanics, Asians, or women. They didn’t cancel any programs for white or male. In the end these idiots didn’t save money, made America look worse to all our allies, ended programs based on race, and STOLE ALL AMERICANS DATA with no oversight.
Hold everyone to the same standard as America holds black people.
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“The global security network that long distinguished US power took generations to build, but it is now unraveling under Donald Trump’s watch. With traditional partners opting out of the Iran war, we could well be seeing the end of the global primacy that most Americans alive today have always taken for granted.”
Making America Great Again! Woo!
Fucking magat morons, this (and the bullshit corrupt pedophile con man cult of personality) is exactly what everyone that voted Democrat was voting against.
Trump did that!!
Maga thinks isolationism is great. They are going to find the economic realities unpalatable.
I feel like NATO telling the orange cry baby to pound sand is Ameica’s Suez Canal moment.
We’re through as the world’s dominant power.
Good.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again; Trump isn’t the disease, he’s a symptom. As a collective whole (don’t @ me with that “I didn’t vote for this” line), we allowed the situation we’re in to happen, and the world was always going to respond accordingly. We took our station in the world and the privileges we had as a given, and we’re showing (again, as a collective whole) that we no longer deserve it.
I say that not as the usual “ha ha down with America” crap you see on Reddit. I say that as someone who *genuinely* – if perhaps naively – believes that we can pull out of this. But that starts with recognizing that the US has officially hit rock bottom, and 33% of Americans think things are great.
Good
Consequences
>America is collapsing before our eyes
Fixed the title.
Atleast we were able to help the Trump family make several billion off of crypto scams. I’d call that a fair trade
An annoying use of the passive voice was made.
American hegemony is not passively collapsing, it is being actively thrown away. And it is being thrown away because Americans put this tremendous power in the hands of a set of men who have no interests whatsoever in the fate of the nation, only in their own power and gratification.
Hot take, it was going that way for a long time, but no one was really testing it that badly. Maybe it was there after 9/11 but what we did after ruined it, but now it’s gone.
Good. If we get rid of the excuse that the USA has to be the world’s police, then we can cut the military budget in half and spend it on actually helping Americans. We are spending almost a trillion dollars a year to bomb poor people, lets spend that on infrastructure and health care and education.
You have to think, what kind of Kompromat do they have on Donald to get him to do all this to this country?
You think Epstein chose Virgina Guiffre because she was a perfect person for his ends?!? Donald is the ideal candidate for foreign interests.
Good.
The US has been perpetually at war for the entirety of its existence — we’ve conquered Indigenous nations, toppled Latin American democracies on behalf of corporations, directly and indirectly fought for Cold War oligarchs while decimating civilian populations in South East Asia, and most recently perpetuate forever war in the Middle East/West Asia to prop up Lockheed Martin while extracting rare minerals and oil.
I welcome a more multipolar world. We shouldn’t be the sole superpower.
And it pisses me off. Ive said it a thousand times and ill say it a thousand more. We had the world eating out of our hands and these greedy rich fucks had to go and fuck it all up.
America and Americans deserve the hell coming. Our blind obedience, arrogance, and unbridled ignorance will be our undoing. Make America Great Again? They Made America Hated Again.
It’s so funny that they’re framing “American hegemony” as a good thing. The brainwashing is strong here.
*is being sabotaged
Bruh, it’s done collapsed.
Our allies are moving on.
Our president is raiding the Treasury and starting unnecessary, likely unwinnable wars.
Our Congress refuses to do anything about it.
There’s no path forward for the American empire, we got 100 years of privilege and now we’re going to have to figure out how to just be a normal country with allies instead of bullying everyone else around.
It’s going to suck, and at the very least be rather inconvenient even if you’re well off. Say goodbye to that magic passport that gets you in everywhere with no paperwork.
But don’t be too sad, this was always coming, Trump and maga just sped it up by a few decades.
I’m going to say the majority who supported this will conveniently step aside when it becomes obvious just how much irreparable damage their ideology caused and act as if someone else (likely a Democrat) is responsible for for cleaning up the mess. Holding people accountable is the only way we’ll stop this never ending cycle.
“For decades, US leadership discouraged precisely this behavior, because it was based on the understanding that separate bargains with adversaries would erode the cohesion that alliances require.”
I’m reminded of Merkle explaining to Trump over and over again that he had to negotiate with the EU, not individual member states. He really doesn’t understand alliances, either those of others or those he inherited.
Took 10 years of bitching from that orange faced clown and his dumbass red hat supporters to completely destroy our influence and alliances.
Good job MAGA. You own this shit sandwich now eat it.
We told you it would happen the first time Trump was elected and he significantly destroyed our “soft power” and economic station in the world. Somehow, he gets elected again and people are surprised when he does it again…
Hey MAGA, this is what you should have been worried about instead of trans people just trying to live their lives.
Pathetic use of passive voice. Trump and his cabinet of criminals are actively shoving American hard and soft power out a 16 story window, and they are doing it on purpose. They are traitors and syncophants to the last.
Leadership matters.
American hegemony is <being destroyed by Russia and Israel> right before our eyes
Make American great again is a misspelling of Make Russia great again, because that’s what this chaos is all about.
Allies for literally ever “we aren’t going to support attacking Iran”
US: we just attacked Iran for no reason and it’s fucked please come help
Allies: no
US: FINE WE ALREADY WON THE WAR ANYWAY IN THE FIRST HOUR
US:……srsly please help
American hegemony is being raped and murdered by Republicans. Always remember this is what Republicans do.
Hey well it’s playing into Putin’s hands the real mastermind of this chess game. It makes you really question Donald’s real intentions. Is he truly a puppet of the Kremlin, the politics certainly point in that direction
Is collapsing? Don’t you mean ‘has collapsed’?
American hegemony started to fade around the Iraq War. It was inevitable even without all the Trump fuckery.
We are living through the end of the empire.
When you step back and look at the bigger picture, it feels like over the past 50 years we’ve seen the gradual degradation of institutions in pursuit of short-term gains—driven largely by the pressure to hit quarterly numbers. That mindset has rewarded cost-cutting, outsourcing, layoffs, and pushing more work onto fewer people, all under the banner of “efficiency.”
Now, many of the same people who operated this way in the private sector are influencing or running parts of the government. They may be generating short-term financial wins, but the concern is that they’re applying a kind of private-equity playbook to public institutions—extracting value while neglecting long-term stability.
The risk is that by the time the damage becomes obvious—when the “infrastructure” of government is weakened or hollowed out—the people who benefited most will have already moved on, insulated from the consequences.
At the same time, those focused on long-term investment in institutions—often labeled as progressives—have been sidelined or dismissed. Their work tends to be less visible and slower to show results, but it’s aimed at strengthening the underlying systems that society depends on.
Meanwhile, voters have increasingly accepted trade-offs that prioritize immediate savings or visible wins over foundational maintenance. It’s like choosing not to repair a crumbling foundation, and instead buying a Ferrari to make the house look impressive—ignoring the structural risks underneath.
Note: Written by me, proofed by AI
The American Hegemon that took over a century and a half to build, but just 2 Trump presidencies to destroy.
Let us hope America doesn’t join Great Britain to become a joke for the rest of the century falling it’s fall from grace.
It’ll take a great president and an actual Congress to course correct this disaster. What are the chances we get both both by 2028?
I think that is a large part of the plan of the Plutocrats behind this administration. Dismantle the US government to eliminate all protections that create a middle class.
American *Hegemony* should collapse!
As all hegemony’s should.
The only thing to weep about is that the DNC and their voter/donors have been so apathetic in perpetuating it that they’ve struggled to enact decent alternatives.
Politicians who HAVE been (Sanders, AOC, Gore) are marginalized and denounced. The result is “status quo” politics which history always shows leads to ever increasing extremist polarization.
And, that usually ends in war …
Good—all empires fall for a reason.
Good. Down with the American Empire!
Free trade and allies were fun while it lasted
Collapsing? It’s a demolition job.
This is how you create hyperinflation and collapse – good job MAGA
You think inflation is bad, wait till the dollar collapses as a result of the world abandoning America.
Iran is likely the last straw. While the US is not perfect, that’s still sad to see 80 years of careful diplomacy torched in a year
Oh dear USA collapsing before our very eyes, that’s what get when you vote in an absolute fucking narcissistic prat like Trump. One self obsessed egomanic has destroyed USA’s standing, credibility and respect in the world. Your Country needs to get this bloke out, he’s got you on the brink that’s going to take a long long time to win back your friends and allies because quite frankly everyone is pissed off with Yanks right now. Because of Trump everyone believes the old adage of Yanks being loud, brash and big headed is true…. Trump did that for you!!
Good. Make America have to fight for respect from the world for fucking once.
It’s not collapsing, it is being actively destroyed through Putin’s puppetry of Trump.
“American Hegemony is being intentionally systematically dismantled before our eyes”. FTFY
America is crumbling because America refuses to hold wealthy white men accountable. America hold black people to a higher standard, tell lies about them, and over polices black areas using the media making them the face of crime in America. When in reality it’s always been white men. They commit the most crimes and most of the time wealthy white crimes aren’t even counted as crimes. The only white people that are held accountable are poor ones and that’s not even always.
From town burnings, cannibalism to theft of intellectual property white Americans after the civil war got away with heinous terroristic acts other countries have been invaded over.
Any time wealthy white men commit crimes in banking, business, or another industry they cost people jobs and money they don’t get prosecuted.
Then white leaders stoke up racism to shift the blame onto a different group. Since 2000 the blame shifted from black, to middle eastern, to Hispanics, to black again, a the cycle continues. Every once in a while it’ll the blame with get shifted to China for ( stealing jobs or patents) when in reality white leadership sold off America manufacturing capabilities for personal payouts.
All white people are not to blame but the racist ones, the ones continuously supporting white supremacist leadership conservatives and liberal are a part of the problem.
Most prime example of why America is failing is the videos of doge employees butchering the few unselfish good things America did because they don’t even understand DEI. They got rid of every contract dealing with blacks, Hispanics, Asians, or women. They didn’t cancel any programs for white or male. In the end these idiots didn’t save money, made America look worse to all our allies, ended programs based on race, and STOLE ALL AMERICANS DATA with no oversight.
Hold everyone to the same standard as America holds black people.