Are America's four main adversaries really in cahoots?

[douglas9]

Hours after Donald Trump was sworn in as president, China’s Xi Jinping made a call to Russian President Vladimir Putin in which, according to the Chinese foreign ministry’s readout, the two leaders pledged to deepen their “strategic coordination” and “practical cooperation” and “firmly support each other.”

Just a few days earlier on January 17, Putin and his Iranian counterpart, Masoud Pezeshkian, signed a 20-year strategic partnership agreement, pledging a wide range of military cooperation.

Meanwhile, North Korea is pledging to send more troops to Russia, where they have been fighting alongside Russian forces against Ukraine since last October, taking shockingly high losses.

https://www.vox.com/world-politics/397741/axis-upheaval-crinks-china-russia-iran-north-korea

[lark]

1. Yes n/t

[Walleye]

2. Unfortunately, our main adversary is our current president. An enemy of the United States is in the oval office.

[Jarqui]

3. All they have to do is sit back and watch

America is destroying itself for them

They must be backslapping giddy

The winners of Trump's economic tariffs war: most countries in the world not named United States, Canada & Mexico. 10% won't bother China as much because they can buy Canada and Mexico goods and sell them back to Americans taking a piece of that action.

[Irish_Dem]

4. Yes the fascist alliance is stronger than ever, and Trump has joined them.

And is working to damage western alliances.

All according to plan.

[usonian]

5. Their plan is to divide the world three ways: Putin, Xi and Dump.

Then why tax China? To raise the blackmail price? Those bibles are printed in China, IIRC.

Financial Times, archived article
Canada, Trump and the new world orderr.
(Make that New World Odor.)

https://archive.md/XEEtx

Real short: (most of it is filler)

Focusing American power on its own hemisphere would allow Trump, in other words, to square many circles: to make America great again by making America’s imperial footprint smaller, to reduce the tax burden on the rich by cutting into the apparatus that a global imperium required.

So there it is. Give Europe to Putin, the rest of Asia (and presumably Africa) to Xi, and give most of the defense budget (and education and health care) money to the rich.

[2naSalit]

6. I don't get...

The part where people doubt that they are.