Liberal democracies like Canada and the European Union are quietly absorbing the moral slack left by the United States. They are resettling refugees, enforcing climate commitments, and defending human rights while the U.S. continues to extort allies through trade, military dependency, and financial leverage.
Transactionalism is replacing values-based diplomacy. Human rights are now negotiable. And the United States no longer pretends otherwise.
So why do liberal democracies still treat the U.S. as a moral compass while being shaken down for obedience?
The truth is, many are already hedging. They are building regional resilience, forging multipolar alliances, and quietly disentangling.
Our founding fathers were brilliant but they could never have imagined that Americans would use the freedoms they created to overturn democracy itself yet that’s where we’re headed.
From birthright citizenship to the 1st Amendment the system has been hacked from the inside and they’ll always be a depraved defense attorney to defend even the most treasonous of actions .
Liberal democracies like Canada and the European Union are quietly absorbing the moral slack left by the United States. They are resettling refugees, enforcing climate commitments, and defending human rights while the U.S. continues to extort allies through trade, military dependency, and financial leverage.
Transactionalism is replacing values-based diplomacy. Human rights are now negotiable. And the United States no longer pretends otherwise.
So why do liberal democracies still treat the U.S. as a moral compass while being shaken down for obedience?
The truth is, many are already hedging. They are building regional resilience, forging multipolar alliances, and quietly disentangling.
Well said
Our founding fathers were brilliant but they could never have imagined that Americans would use the freedoms they created to overturn democracy itself yet that’s where we’re headed.
From birthright citizenship to the 1st Amendment the system has been hacked from the inside and they’ll always be a depraved defense attorney to defend even the most treasonous of actions .
The enemy is within .