A lot of Korean stock buyers are deranged gamblers who'd feel right at home at r/WallStreetBets, and even they are tuning out of America's shit.
The law enforcement is now fully rigged in their favor. IRS is weakened. No one will prosecute white collar rich guy crimes, cause DOJ do not have those capabilities anymore. However, they are capable to harass opposition better then ever before. They also successfully build unaccountable outside of law paramilitary force.
They seem to be on their way to get permanent power, so it is not like they achieved nothing.
Let that be the ember of hope in this dark time: degeneracy always wins.
https://www.prismnews.com/news/south-korea-seeks-parity-with...
> Seoul faces practical limits in matching the scale of Taiwan’s commitments.. official summaries indicate a joint investment and guarantee package of about $350 billion agreed with the U.S., of which approximately $150 billion is earmarked for a shipbuilding cooperation project.. this allocation leaves less capacity to offer Taiwan‑style semiconductor investment packages and could complicate negotiations over parity.
So far I have seen no convincing evidence that this is true, especially considering Trump tends not to be very nuanced about stuff like this. Despite the Korean far-right's very vocal appeal for Trump to come and rescue Yoon or even do a Venezuela-style intervention, Trump seems to have more or less ignored them, and hasn't given Yoon much sympathy or attention either.
The Korean far-right has also made similar appeals to Elon Musk, but Elon too, seems to be ignoring them, unlike the support he's given to European far-right parties.
AtlasBarfed•1w ago
h4kunamata•1w ago
USA is no longer a superpower, they just haven't noticed it yet.
silisili•1w ago
Well, I feel sorry for the first country that tries to test that theory.
One can make an argument the global dollar is losing its hold, or that the world is expanding away from US trade, which are both objectively true.
But to say the US is not a superpower is rather foolish.
Balinares•1w ago
ta20240528•1w ago
I took exactly one British military officer in Greenland to stop the entire US Department of War.
I will grant the US is a superpower, even the largest. But they aren't the only one.
ben_w•6d ago
IMO, the USA probably is still a superpower. But the UK and France didn't realise they'd stopped being superpowers until the Suez Crisis, and I suspect the USA will only discover the loss of superpower status in a similar way. Though not exactly the same, given what happened in Vietnam and Afghanistan, let alone TACOing out of using force to take Greenland.
ZeroGravitas•1w ago
Canada and UK doing deals with China.
EU doing deals with India and South America.
Just one trading partner that's a loose cannon on the deck and no longer reliable.
AtlasBarfed•1w ago
With that, various navies harass / threaten / privateer vulnerable ships on the high seas.
ZeroGravitas•6d ago