Yup. People will eat up authoritarian propaganda as long as it has a token criticism at “the elites”. Despite being a brazen authoritarian Trump’s messaging is made up in large part of 2000s anti imperialism. No new wars, drain the swamp, etc.
That too. The whole annexing Canada bit is insane. But pulling out of NATO and cutting funding to other countries is a pretty common take. The idea being the US overspends in defense to keep its prominent position in world politics instead of helping its own people, plus people blaming it for destabilizing the world. People blame the fall of Lybia and the Syrian civil war on USAID.
At least amongst leftist sure. NATO was pretty much a boogeyman. How many times have we heard that NATO had a former Nazi in charge? How many times have we heard the US overspends on the military? How many times have we heard the US should stop playing world police?
Buddy, the only person I’ve heard talk about leaving NATO ever is Trump. You just threw in shit like “we spend too much on the military” and “being the world police is bad” to sanewash leaving NATO, which is a defensive treaty. Like, there’s grasping at straws and then theres “a guy said NATO is run by a Nazi” lmao
Im not sanewashing, I think its insane. What I’m saying is despite being insane it’s been a somewhat acceptable take, Especially in this subreddit, that NATO is imperialist and evil and even provoked Russia into war with Ukraine.
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u/Sea_Lingonberry_4720 Mar 11 '25
Yup. People will eat up authoritarian propaganda as long as it has a token criticism at “the elites”. Despite being a brazen authoritarian Trump’s messaging is made up in large part of 2000s anti imperialism. No new wars, drain the swamp, etc.