(This post is for non-Americans.) Folks, it's time to stop agonising over everything the Americans do, and focus instead on building a world that works without them. Let's accept that we can no longer rely on them for anything: trade, global security, aid, medical research, a model of democracy, tech innovation … anything.
Even if the U.S. somehow achieves peaceful democratic transfers of power in 2026 and 2028 — and there are many good Americans fighting hard for that — there''ll be years or decades of cleaning up and rebuilding shattered democratic institutions from the ground up. Write them out of the global script for now and move on.
@david_megginson Indeed we need to move away from reliance on the US.
May I guess you aren't suggesting we should ignore their political moves?
@TrueNorthSpice Not ignore completely, but perhaps not make them our sole focus.
The EU alone is nearly as big an economy as the U.S., and that's before you factor in the UK, Canada, Australia, and other larger rich countries. Then take the emerging economic power of the Global South as well, and there's no reason that the latest whims of the U.S. leader should dominate every news cycle, with pundits trying to guess what he really "intends."
(Answer: Nothing. He intends nothing. He's the human embodiment of a random walk, and we're fools to keep trying to figure him out as if he could actually reason out a plan.)
@david_megginson @TrueNorthSpice Can you explain more exactly the context of this part please "He's the human embodiment of a random walk,..."? or is it basically like a drunk person doing nothing (only he's not drunk in this case but still wasting time you mean?)
