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texanfan27 posted...

Not sure if its just us, or the world somedays. Either way this will take a while to fix if even possible

I live in the Netherlands, and although I reckon it's not quite as bad as in the U.S. here yet, I do think it's on the way, especially considering pretty much any meaningful effort to solve the problems that affect most/all of society have been delayed and/or diminished due to (populistic) rightwing parties aiming to please their voters.

On top of that, so far the Dutch government seems to roll over to anything Trump tells them to do (which might have a little something to do with the former Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte being the current NATO Secretary General).

Like it or not, the POTUS still has a lot of influence in what happens in global politics, even if everyone in the world knows that POTUS happens to be an deranged lunatic. There has been somewhat more talk that Europe should be less dependent on the U.S., though so far it doesn't feel like it's a priority.

Oh and we recently had a collapse of the coalition, which was led by a populistic right-wing party, the popularity of which has barely diminished. They did to agree to Trump's demand of every NATO country raising their military spending to 5%, but where that money is supposed to come from? They'll leave that to the next coalition.