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I'm in Canada.

Since Bush W, I saw the blatant writing on the wall of the direction the US was going. Trump version 1 seemed like a clown show and I assumed things would get worse but it would take 20-30 more years. I never once thought we'd see a Trump version 2.

I think this is probably the end of the USA as we once knew it. Trump is on a speedrun to crash everything. The American people are either cheering it on or apathetic. The public won't stop him. The opposition in US government seems unable to deal with Trump because he clearly doesn't give a shit about decorum, rules, or law.

I guess we all realize empires eventually fall. The US got itself here from it's own hubris. It's time.

I do worry being right next door and both the US and Russia eyeballing our northern routes and resources. More and more I'm coming to terms with probably dying defending my country from a direct attack. Something I never really worried about until last November.

It's a scary time

I've always seen the US as a somewhat virulent imperial power, and it made a clear and decisive break with international law back in 2001 which successive administrations have never walked back, so it's been a bit of a rogue/outlier state for the past 24 years.

That said I think what we are seeing now is different. The US has just undergone full legislative capture by oligarchs, and they are going ham on the rest of the world.

For many of us overseas, this is seen as the US pulling back the curtain, yes. These ideas have been couched rhetoric for decades, mostly from Reagan or even earlier. The current figures just don't know how to be subtle about it. Or perhaps, feel confident enough to believe nobody will stop them.

This follows with the people. We've seen Americans make excuses for harmful policy for decades already, preoccupied with which individual social tribes to blame. I think many were (or are) hoping this extremity would prompt revolt or rebellion, but are ultimately not surprised that most Americans have simply become even more divided and hostile. Were begging you to stop it. Most of us are already convinced you won't.

The groundwork to make men/women left/right native/expat worker/boss Chrstian/Muslim etc blame each other for the suffering in their own communities has been laid for a long time and is now self-sustaining and making uniting against class difficult, if not impossible.

The ridiculous military funding also makes Americans that do want to resist feel too afraid to do so. You were told it would protect you from the other social tribes, but the tribes being blamed were chosen almost exclusively for the elite's financial or global power reasons.

German here. We are 4 to 8 years away from Nazis becoming elected again, at least very likely. I'm looking with horror towards the US and just hope he burns it down so fast that the right shift looses it's current drive in Europe.

it's especially hard trying to move away from US produced goods and media for me, as I am in the US

Lithuanian here, a very popular Facebook page keeps posting "Trump is about to wake up, prepare for him saying something stupid" every day.

Hi, Aussie here. Entirely expected and unsurprising. I mean Hitler learned from the USA.

Been watching the usa destroy everything nice about Australia for my entire life and waiting for the other shoe to drop. Good luck, please don't our government again if we elect another socialist.

Canadian here, it pains me to admit that my hope at this point is that Trump manages to crash the US so fast that it hits rock bottom before invading us.

dude also purged the generals yesterday

This isn’t off topic at all. What brand are the chargers currently installed? And when the armored cybertrucks are mandated government vehicles, what brand of chargers will be reinstalled? And at whose order is all of this happening?