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1. >The real question isn’t whether we can afford diplomacy — it’s whether we can afford the strategic costs of abandoning it. In a world of rising powers and deepening global competition, cutting our diplomatic strength isn’t savings. It’s surrender.

2. Everything that they are doing right now is weakening America’s ability to compete on the global stage

3. The similarities between the U.S. and the late Roman empire are really getting obvious

4. It’s not that big of a deal. It hurts US trust and prestige, weakens soft power a lot, but the geopolitical realities on the ground stays the same.

   The only real change this will cause is a further consolidation of US empire over the areas of the world that will stay US aligned anyway.

   Trump’s foreign policy seems to be a general consolidation of allies, and then using those allies to extract tribute from them for short term gains.

   I think comparisons to the dying Roman Empire are foolish – the US empire isn’t going anywhere. I think a more apt comparison is to Athens when it started acting tyrannically toward its allies once there was no threat to keep the alliance together.

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