weakening the US state is a good thing in my book. The less organized the imperial core is the more breathing room there is for the rest of the world.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

it's not weakening; it's reshuffling resources to prioritize china.

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

It does weakening it temporarily, institutions take time to get properly organized and function efficiently. Think of USAID, while not perfectly efficient it already functioned like an oiled machine, dismantling it to set up a new one will require more work to get it started than just keeping USAID going, with the added risk that the newer thing is not guaranteed to succeed.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

agreed and what's happening to usaid is fascinating; its resources are being reshuffled to cointelpro-ing american citizens ... again

[–] IttihadChe@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think it's definitely weakening.

The dismatling of organisations like USAID Is a representation of the move away from "soft power" liberalized imperialism to more aggressive outright imperialism.

Aggressive imperialism i much easier to spot and much harder to defend, both within the imperial countries and within the exploited countries.

It's not like America was just "too nice" to do the imperialism outright before, it's that after decades of direct imperialism it realized that it was much easier to do it less-directly so that was the better focus.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

better by what measure?