11-05-2018 22:50 via thestranger.com

The American Empire Will Not Survive Trump

by Charles Mudede everlite/gettyimages.com
By the end of Trump's presidency we will have three super-powers: Europe, China, and the US. The weakest of the three will likely be the US, which has, through Trump's bizarre foreign policy moves, helped unify Europe, pushed South Korea closer to China, and disintegrated its own economic/political bloc (Canada and Mexico) with tariffs on the one hand and racist attacks on the other. The US can not go it alone, and it has an economy that's mostly sustai
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