Feed posts
Shared with Public
From Felicia Muftic's post May 15, 2026 on Facebook.
Trump's flattery of Xi got him a response: America is in decline. If Xi was referring to America's power in foreign affairs, the ability to shape the world in ways that benefit America's national interests, Xi has a point....Except we were not in decline, but we have been weakened on purpose by a president who engineered our decline. America First, isolationism, ticking off our once allies and best friends, threatening to invade and grab their properties, imposing tariffs on our biggest trading partners, de facto knee-capping NATO, and Article 5, cozying up to the world's tyrants like Putin, has resulted in the loss of the USA's ability to influence what we once called the"free world". Trump no longer wants to join together with our largest trading partners in mutual defense and economic strength. Our allies from Japan to Anzac now fear he is going to trade off Taiwan to get XI's help in digging Trump himself out of his Iran blunder. Ukraine is surviving without Trump. and has revolutionized modern drone warfare with the financial assistance of the EU, freed by the demise of the stumbling block, Hungary's Orban, and Germany is now rearming itself... The US military alone could not effect regime change in Iran, which has dug in underground. And the result, Iran may never feel it has to agree to any nuclear deal. They still have the Hormuz card to play.
The result is that the world no longer dances to a tune they once liked coming from America, and is learning to live on its own tune, not ours. They do not trust us. In Europe, polls show over 60 to 70 percent of EU and UK citizens despise, dislike, and disapprove of Trump. and any of their politicians who would like to cozy up to Trump would face political death. If that is the America First you desired, it is what you got.
