• immutable@lemmy.zip
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      3 days ago

      Soft power that has taken nearly a century to build up.

      That’s the amazing thing about this moment in time. It is incalculable the amount of human effort that went into building this soft power reserve that is just being pissed away.

      I can’t imagine what it would feel like to be someone that worked on serious trade deals or had some kind of diplomatic role. The number of Americans that volunteered in the peace corps to better the world and in doing so also buy goodwill with their time and work.

      And for nothing. Literally nothing.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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      4 days ago

      Yeah but it’s all worth it to not have to have access to abundant cheap labour, wait hang on.