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    Amerika ist offiziell ein Imperium im Niedergang

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    1. justtakeapill on

      Decline? America is dead and buried. It would take serious miracles and a few centuries to revive the country- and with the new Project 2026 it’s going to get a lot worse (i.e., they want women to marry and have kids ASAP, and should be prevented from working) an end to LGBTQ, and end the post office, etc.

    2. Spanky3703 on

      True.

      Unfortunately, the decline will be incredibly loud and messy, both domestically and globally, before the US slides into economic and political dotage and isolation.

      And the world will pay, along with the US. The thrashings of the fading US body politic will do an immense amount of damage.

    3. jainyday on

      NYT, this was true the moment we elected Trump the first time. You’re a decade late.

    4. projecto15 on

      >The rise and fall of nations… but it takes a special talent to destroy in a few years what was built up over two centuries. (A comment on the article)

      And a special idiocy for voters to inflict this on themselves

    5. SpatulaWholesale on

      The best thing for the US would be a change of administration *before* US troops get deployed.

      Once troops are in contact, it will be hard for the next administration to simply withdraw.

    7. Dreams-Visions on

      When the NYT — who is typically posting state department propaganda — is letting these pieces fly, shit is definitely falling apart. Yes I know it’s an opinion piece. But they still very rarely run this kinda commentary. Not that it does anything to absolve them of their role in modern discourse, induced complicity or permission structure that has lead to all manner of atrocities abroad and domestic..

    8. Jiffyyy on

      If the Republicans get smashed during future elections and lose their power and we have someone competent in charge isn’t that what’s needed to steer things back on track or is the US too far gone for that?

    9. Domestiicated-Batman on

      Good, it’s deserved, maybe we’ll come out better for it, focusing on rebuilding our systems from the ground up and not destroying other nations

    19. GlennSeaborg on

      Since 11 September 2001, slowly in decline. Although you can argue it was 12 December 2000 when the SCOTUS decided the election in favor of George W Bush.

    20. Naurgul on

      >Mr. Caldwell is a contributing Opinion writer and the author of “The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties.”

      >At home, proponents of wokeness underestimated the costs and difficulties of micromanaging interactions between groups.
      Overextension was a danger that President Joe Biden contemptuously dismissed. “We’re the United States of America,” he used to say, “and there’s nothing we can’t do.”
      Mr. Trump, people thought, would be different. For all the grandiosity of the expression “Make America great again,” Trump voters did not expect him to take on new problems. The greatness would be mostly atmospheric — braggadocio, not adventurism.
      In last November’s National Security Strategy, he added, “The days in which the Middle East dominated American foreign policy in both long-term planning and day-to-day execution are thankfully over.”
      This was a logical, even an admirable, foreign policy plan.
      The skepticism about American hegemony that led Americans to turn to Mr. Trump was a healthy one. If a globalist system built on free trade, democracy promotion and mass migration is so great, Trump voters asked, then why have we had to borrow $35 trillion since we took it up? That’s a genuinely good question.

      Is nobody reading past the title? This reads like a disappointed MAGA idiot/grifter.

    21. MoonOut_StarsInvite on

      I guess that obnoxious chick who took a few college classes and had to learn everyone on the front porch of the keg party in 2007 was right! The United States is just like Rome. 😣

    25. Happy_Feet333 on

      *The skepticism about American hegemony that led Americans to turn to Mr. Trump was a healthy one. If a globalist system built on free trade, democracy promotion and mass migration is so great, Trump voters asked, then why have we had to borrow $35 trillion since we took it up? That’s a genuinely good question. Mr. Trump was the perfect candidate for Americans who suspected something had gone wrong with their elites.*

      What a disingenuous question!

      $35 trillion in debt was never because of ‚hegemony‘ and associating the debt with it is like asking why America is in debt for 35 trillion because no new Scooby-Doo episodes are being made or aired on television.

      The debt comes from repeatedly cutting taxes and because of aging demographics.

    26. AmericanLymie on

      It’s by choice. The president is a mad king, the Congress lets him take and abuse powers that are not his, the Supreme Court enriches him with powers that the laws expressly forbid, and 350 million Americans whether they complain or not have sat by idly and allowed it to happen. Three ’no kings‘ rallies, six hours each, over a year and a half is the saddest possible ‚protest‘ of a nation in a state of depressive suicidality.

    27. dkepp87 on

      All because we didnt want trans kids playing sports. Good job, America. Dumbass capital of the world.

    28. six-demon_bag on

      I feel like this is a huge over simplification. It’s been a concerted effort by some conservatives for at least 60 to get to this point, it didn’t happen suddenly with Trump. Conservative media like the NYT have actively participated in steering the country in this direction too.

    29. reddit_is_kayfabe on

      > A Middle Eastern military misadventure is one of the last ways a casual observer would have expected Mr. Trump’s presidency to go wrong. The problems he alluded to in all three of his presidential campaigns had mostly resulted from our leaders’ governing beyond their means. At home, proponents of wokeness underestimated the costs and difficulties of micromanaging interactions between groups. Abroad, the mighty American armed forces proved to have no particular talent for democracy promotion, and there was the recent debacle in Iraq to prove it. Overextension was a danger that President Joe Biden contemptuously dismissed. “We’re the United States of America,” he used to say, “and there’s nothing we can’t do.”

      Oh, fuck you very much, NYT.

      You’re going to start an article about the catastrophic problems with bombing Iran by dumping on leftists for asking people to recognize pronouns and not harass LGBTQ people? Are those on par in your world view?

      And then you’re going to blame Biden for „overextension?“ What kind of „extension“ did Biden „over,“ in your estimation? How many military adventures did Biden start? What „Build The“ projects did Biden take on as a folly of grotesquely unrealistic goals, gargantuan financial waste, and opportunities for personal grift?

      Fuck NYT for its both-sidesism and its endless quest to appeal to MAGA by constantly insulting leftists.

      Fuck NYT for its incessant desire for centrism that proposes to do nothing overtly MAGA-aligned *and also* nothing about the problems actually facing Americans. Just endlessly supporting the Chuck Schumer do-nothing status quo, wherever it ends up today after MAGA takes a breather from pushing it rightward.

      Fuck NYT for turning what used to be solid, reliable journalism into the same mealy-mouthed, unprincipled, open sewer of spin and junk celeb-gossip coverage as CNN and WaPo.

    31. Overdrv76 on

      It is amazing to me that Russia is going to beat the USA with media manipulation.

    32. Significant_Swing_76 on

      First time Trump was elected – I said “the US is in decline”.

      The second time Trump was elected – I said “the US is in decay”.

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