Response to a Facebook post.
MAGA. Make America Great Again. Great. Many English adjectives are used in an exaggerated manner, I notice. Great. Amazing. Unbelievable. Incredible. Awesome. Dictator. Hitler (as adjective). Pervert. Marvelous. Breathtaking. Etcetera. I think it's because the West used to subjugate and colonize the majority of the world? Americans and Europeans believe they are the greatest, indeed. Are the others, lesser humans? LOL!
My honest or pragmatic take: The Left makes fun of "Make America Great Again" because they believe America has always been great or Great forever and ever. At least there is an "Again" in MAGA which says the greatness has been diminished or America isn't great anymore. So Donald Trump seeks to regain the “lost” greatness. I think that is a fact. America is not great anymore.
When China strode into the global market in 2001, the Dragon shook the geopolitical power grid. China's 4 world-leading state-owned banks weakened the loans monopoly of the IMF and World Bank. China actually started buying lands overseas right after Mao Zedong died as Deng Xiaoping gave birth to the CCP’s game-changing “open-door” policy in the 1970s. So apart from the mainland's massive workforce, the Politburo owned so many lands globally. And this: They also own many pertinent raw materials that the West needs as staple "ingredients." Such as silicon and APIs to meds. Etc etcetera.
By virtue of that, plus the economic gains of the Asian Tigers and Tiger Cubs (from the ashes of the 1990s currency crash that Wall Street demigod George Soros masterminded) and the Middle East, add the advent of BRICS “emerging markets” and Asia Pacific’s RCEP (2020, the largest trade bloc so far), America and Europe's greatness wobbled.
These days: Europe or the EU is a lot "less great" than the US though. The U.S. stays #1 (I prefer #1 over Great) because currently the U.S.' trade relations with China, Asia per se (Japan, South Korea, India, Taiwan) and BRICS and the Middle East or Arab League is doing fine. But if the U.S. insists on military brinksmanship or outright invasion to influence or grab power, then the America ceases to be #1. Not that China or Russia can defeat the U.S. in WW3. Nope. It's because the majority of the world will not side with America. They will just smile and say okay (just being nice). Think how Joe Biden's Russia sanction didn't work per the Ukraine war. Why?
The world's economy is already dependent on China or BRICS. And war is bad for business, which is modern China's slogan for trade expansionism. Anyhow, I am baffled when the Left makes fun of MAGA, should it be MAG, drop the “Again,” uh huh? or AGF as in America is Great Forever? Why do I ask? You see, when talking of China's "greatness" or Made in China or Temu, both the Left and Right and center of America howl in displeasure. Nah ah! America is better! We are the Greatest! LOL! ☮️🗽☮️
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