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donmoyn.bsky.social • 14 days ago

The opposite of soft power is not hard power. It is weakness.

Goldman devotes a report to foreign boycotts of US goods. 🇺🇸

“.. this headwind provides an additional reason why US GDP
growth will likely underperform consensus expectations in 2025.

“.. Foreign Sentiment Towards the US Has Declined Sharply”

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dankeevy.bsky.social•14 days ago

Hard power is somewhere between a misnomer and an oxymoron. Crushing with the iron fist has, nowhere in human history, resulted in prosperity.

romancaturday.bsky.social•14 days ago

Great plan for restoring US manufacturing!

midatlantica.bsky.social•14 days ago

Take a practical example: Trump could make nice with Canada tomorrow and Canadians would still turn up their noses to American liquors for years to come. The damage has been done and it will take a very long time repair. Now extend that to cars, tech, etc... if Trump invades Greenland

romanx.bsky.social•14 days ago

This going to be the US version of Brexit, isn't it? Except more calamitous and harder to recover from?

germaney.bsky.social•14 days ago

Yeah, what Trump and his merry band of lawbreakers don’t get is that “hard power”—i.e., treating people, institutions and countries like crap—generally does not make them respect you. It makes them pay you lip service while undermining your objectives at every turn.

hmsgreengoose.bsky.social•14 days ago

"There is no power like hard liquor, I mean power. Hard power"

jonathanedward.bsky.social•14 days ago

So, Is this America “flourishing” and “respected” again,Donald?

marktl.bsky.social•14 days ago

smart power,=integrating the hard power of our military with the soft power of our diplomacy, development assistance, economic might and cultural influence.-HRC

belligan.bsky.social•14 days ago

Very well said

danielthehuman.bsky.social•14 days ago

I'm sure it's a great sign that the only countries whose opinion of the US didn't decline are Russia, China, and Israel

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