Sunday, March 15, 2026

Top US allies are turning toward China instead. Blame Trump.

European allies broadly support building closer ties to China -- and believe America's role as a global superpower is fading.

Posted by LampLighter at 08:08 PM | 12 COMMENTS | permalink

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The 21st century is more likely to belong to Beijing than to Washington " at least that's the view from four key U.S. allies.

Swaths of the public in Canada, Germany, France and the U.K. have soured on the U.S., driven by President Donald Trump's foreign policy decisions, according to recent results from The POLITICO Poll. ...

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-03-15 08:09 PM

When a US Pres goes on a path to actively our decades-long alliances, what might occur?

Pres Trump may have brought the US to a stage of tactical, not-thought-out, interactions with the world community.

Meanwhile, China has been taking a different approach. Long term rationality, instead of short-term indecision.

In the past on this most august sight I have often noted a major difference between China and Pres Trump.

China looks to the future, not the one- or two-year future, but decades.

Pres Trump seems to be focused upon what can this deal get me now.

So, the World Order that the United States has fostered, fed and grown since the end of WWII seems to being actively and intentionally destroyed by Pres Trump.

My first question is ...

How does that benefit Americans?

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-03-15 08:24 PM

As investment exits USA and flows to China, Maga blames China.

#3 | Posted by fresno500 at 2026-03-15 09:02 PM

Xi and Putin are ecstatic over the damage the brain dead orange chomo is inflicting on America.

#4 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-03-15 09:40 PM

media.cnn.com

#5 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-03-15 09:44 PM

America's role as a global superpower is fading.

This is what I voted for.
--Boaz

#6 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-03-15 09:49 PM

PEDO DONNIE is a traitor.

Impeach
Convict
Execute

#7 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-03-15 09:57 PM

@#6 ... America's role as a global superpower is fading. ...

Looks that way.

Here's a commentary that has caught my attention. Unfortunataely, aside from a short excerpt, only the video is available ...

OpEd: America's imperial trap in Iran
fareedzakaria.com

... For around 15 years, many American leaders -- including all three presidents in that period -- believed that the country was too deeply entangled in trying to reorder the societies of the Middle East.

They felt the more pressing challenges included rebuilding America's industrial base and confronting the rise of China.

Yet here America is, once again, fighting a war to reorder a society in the greater Middle East.

And like in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, this war seems unlikely to turn out quite as its proponents may hope.

Why does this keep happening? ...



The full OpEd is here [paywall]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/03/13/britain-empire-trump-iran-decline/

Or on video here: Why America keeps getting bogged down in the Middle East
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGDVTgOw_4Q


#8 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-03-15 10:05 PM

"America's role as a global superpower is fading."

This is literally what Trump promised to do.
Would any Trump voters care to disagree?

#9 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-03-15 10:07 PM

This is literally what Trump promised to do.

Very true, No more wars. No more world policeman. Pull up the drawbridge, flood the moat. Fortress America.

#10 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-03-15 10:21 PM

"America's role as a global superpower is fading."

This is good, its founders were slave owners.

I don't see why Snoofy is so disappointed, given all his disparaging remarks about America's founding and founders.
I would imagine this would be a time for him to celebrate.


Very true, No more wars. No more world policeman. Pull up the drawbridge, flood the moat. Fortress America.
#10 | POSTED BY REDIAL

Seems reasonable, why would anyone want a country founded on Slavery to be the worlds policeman?

#11 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-03-15 10:28 PM

#11

Maybe because slavery is ancient history in this hemisphere, and the US kept the Axis Powers from ruling the world... starting with your former country.

#12 | Posted by Corky at 2026-03-15 10:38 PM

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