2026-04-28 07:17:21
Die USA verlieren ihre Rolle als stabilisierender Hegemon nicht durch Niederlage, sondern durch Selbstentkernung Militärisch dominant, wirtschaftlich abhängig, ideologisch erschöpft – diese Kombination zerstört ihre Führungsfähigkeit von innen
Die eigentliche Gefahr ist das Machtvakuum, das sie hinterlassen
Analyse von Dieter Schnaas zur Erosion der US-Hegemonie unter Trump im Spannungsfeld von NATO, China und globaler Ordnung
This is as good a time as any for a thought experiment.
You're in Nazi Germany. You know about the camps, you know what they do, you see the ash fall, you smell it. People who resist alone are killed, some are sent to the camps too. You're afraid to even talk to people about it for fear that they'll turn you in.
You think back to when the camps were being built. You had all the warning signs, but you didn't know how to interpret them. You could believe it would happen. You thought you'd have a chance to vote him out. You thought there might be another way. You thought maybe things would turn out differently if you just sat tight, kept your head down, kept yourself safe.
You see a family being dragged from their home. You know they will be killed. You want to fight, not just for them but for yourself. You opposed Hitler, and at any point you know you could be on the list... Even if you do nothing.
You wish you could rise up, shoot the SS, open the gates, fight it all. You know you aren't alone, but you don't know how to connect with the people who want the same thing.
Using the knowledge we have now, what should you have done in the preceding months and years to connect, to build a community that would open up all paths of resistance?
There were people who resisted. We know it wasn't enough.
Gun laws in Nazi Germany were very similar to US laws in that Nazis were largely free to own guns and everyone else was not. Unlike the US, where "others" have historically controlled using the fear that they might be randomly executed, Germany did codify it. Red flag laws were one more step in the US towards that codification, and there will be more.
When Nazis were taking away those guns, the social networks didn't exist to make resistance possible for most folks. But some Jews were able to resist.
It wasn't the guns that made the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising possible, though they definitely helped. The Warsaw Ghetto uprising was made possible by labor organizing in the precessing years.
If there were more uprisings like that, the Holocaust could have been stopped if not prevented. Social networks make resistance possible. Guns are only useful tools to resist authoritarianism *after* you build a community able to support that resistance, and they are only one of many tools made useful by that community.
Getting guns is easy, and not always necessary. Building community is hard. Guns won't keep you safe. Community will.
Single acts of resistance may slow the machine down, but to actually bring down a monster you need to be able to attack more than once. You need a society of resistance. If you are afraid now, build that. Talk to people while it's still safe to do so. Ask them where their red line is. Talk to neighbors. Figure out your network.
Take the steps you need now to keep your neighbors safe, to keep yourself safe.
#USPol
There is no excuse for the US the ever have any military personnel die in combat again.
Just issue them each a ballroom and they’ll be fine.
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#USpol #DanceFighting
Heute vor 59 Jahren: Am 27. April 1967 testen die #USA die Atombombe "Effendi". Die Operation #Latchkey war eine Serie von 38 US-amerikanischen #Kernwaffentests, die 1966/67 auf der Nevad…
Apparently, future travellers to the US are now expected to disclose every email address they've used in the last five years, alongside their social media accounts. I must have hundreds of addresses, because of the catch-all 🤯. There's not a chance in hell I'm going there unless absolutely necessary.
#USA
Fire damage aboard #US supercarrier off #Iran caused by fire in a laundry is forcing the ship to go to Crete for repairs amid claims of poor crew morale.
Speculating here, but is this arson/sabotage?
#IranCrisis
This is basically accurate.
#NATO #uspol #IranWar #TrumpsWar
RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116292642552859449
So …. Trump raises fuel prices with his war, then his USPS squeezes us further.
The pain is the purpose.
Great blog, Defeated, How Trump is destroying the US as a world power.
#usa
US-Algorithmen als Grenzhüter: Automatisierte Urteile über EU-Reisende möglich
Ein Entwurf zum Austausch von Biometriedaten mit den USA lässt zu, dass Software bald allein über die Einreise entscheidet – trotz massiver Datenschutzbedenken. @… #USA
“Canada supports the United States…..”
these are the only words that matter and I’m sorry what? This is “our” position? No. I reject this!!
Canada has stood for humanitarian law and international peace and security for nearly a century.
We should be a “Middle Power” with values. Right? Wasn’t that the Davos speech?!
But here we are clapping meekly from the sidelines as the country that would love to annex us, now ruled by a Christo-Fascist Regime, and in partnership with a Judeo-Fascist Regime blows up people in a country ruled by a Islamo-Fascist regime.
We are basically back to the Middle Ages but with nukes in our back pocket.
These are the three most dangerous countries in the world all fighting amongst themselves. We should not be taking sides, except for the side of peaceful civilians of all religions in all countries.
This is not the way.
I am shocked at the shallowness, the naïveté and the cowardice of Carney’s foreign policy.
#canpoli #cdnpoli #canada #iran #usa #israel #palestine #war #genocide #fascism
«#KI vom OpenAI-Rivalen Anthropic bei Maduro-Einsatz genutzt:
Bei der #US-Militäroperation zur Gefangennahme des venezolanischen Machthabers Nicolšs Maduro ist einem Medienbericht zufolge #KISoftware des
Good news from Fox!?
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/inside-antifa-linked-groups-plan-structurally-change-us-may-day-unrest-approaches
I’m so glad that the United States Navy and the IRGC are playing chicken in the Strait of Hormuz and not trying to sort things out like a bunch of sugared up 5 year olds. /s
https://houseofsaud.com/us-navy-hormuz-transit/
Death Gulch at Yellowstone is "a natural death trap for animals" due to CO2 and H2S accumulation. "At high concentrations..., these gases are lethal, and the death of one animal is thought to lure in others, who are then also overcome." Also, description of Wahb Springs.
Great post by US Geological Survey #USGS scientists
Abolish the office of United States president. It's too much power for one person, even when the president follows the law, let alone this chud who doesn't. #PresidentsDay #uspol
So Iran and the US will meet, the ceasefire will be extended, Trump will declare victory and a "deal", afterwards, the deal will ofcourse not be there and we will go for another cycle.... #Iran #US #Groundhogday
"Almost Half of America’s Kids Are Breathing Toxic Air"
#US #USA #America #Pollution
The US Supreme Court FINALLY ruled against Trump’s tariff imposing. It’s really basic constitutional law, 3 Supreme Stooges voted the wrong way!
Those 3 are the biggest crooks.
Kavanaugh, Alito, and Thomas are anti-justice.
#USPolitics #NoJustice
A real “my shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt” sort of moment
#uspol
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/09/melania-trump-epstein-speech-puzzle
"Electric buses are passing a brutal cold-weather test in Wisconsin"
#US #USA #America #Wisconsin
Wow things are going great.
#uspol
Heute vor 61 Jahren: Am 26.03.1965 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die 35. Atombombe "Cup". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in
The latest Trump wanna-be assassin:
“And I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.”
…..
“I walk in with multiple weapons and not a single person there considers the possibility that I could be a threat.
The security at the event is all outside, focused on protestors and current arrivals, because apparently no one thought about what happens if someone checks in the day before.”
…..
“Oh and if anyone is curious is how doing something like feels: it’s awful. I want to throw up; I want to cry for all the things I wanted to do and never will, for all the people whose trust this betrays; I experience rage thinking about everything this administration has done.
Can’t really recommend it! Stay in school, kids.”
#usa #trump #theAmericanFascist #WHCD
I was listening to the #DailyZeitgeist podcast yesterday talking about how #US people compare #ICE to the Gestapo when Hitler and his Nazis used US
Mark Lawrence Wolf (geb. 23. 11. 1946), ehemaliger Bundesrichter in den #USA bezweifelt, dass es unter Trump noch Wahlen gibt
#Demokratie #Autokratie
Another cut in CISA budget for 2027, 707 million less.
#cisa #us #cybersecurity
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The title says it all: Don’t Visit the #US https://onefoottsunami.com/2026/03/03/an-america-hostile-to-tourists/
The flu pandemic that killed 50,000,000 people in the last century was first detected on a US Army base.
But sure kegsbreath, let's not vaccinate against it.
h/t @…
#USpol
Republicans see "The Handmaid's Tale" as a manual. This is what they have planned for Women.
#USPolitics
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/us/household-vote-women.html?unlocked_article_code=1.X1A.214g.VgMuY03iso53&smid=url-share
#USA ikke længere er deres allierede, — The …
Heute vor 50 Jahren: Am 26. Februar 1976 testen die #USA die Atombombe "Shallows". Die Operation Anvil war eine Serie von 21 US-amerikanischen #Kernwaffentests, die 1975 und 1976 auf der Nevada Test Site in Nevada unterirdisch durchgeführt wurde.
Hmm. What right other than becoming POTUS does a naturalized US citizen not have (compared to US born citizens)? 🤔
#question #naturalization #citizenship #USA
This infographic is going around about the deployement of US forces in the Middle East, you can argue about some details but it illustrates the sheer size of the deployement.
#USA #Iran #geopolitics …
US FCC bans importation of nearly all Internet routers
#us #fcc #router #routerban
"Supreme Court agrees to hear from oil and gas companies trying to block climate change lawsuits"
#US #USA #America #FossilFuels
Iran is continuing to prepare for a potential military conflict with the United States.
#usa
"Trump signs memos to boost US fossil-fuel production for ‘defense readiness’"
#US #USA #America #FossilFuels
I heard a radio report on the Iran war and when the reporter said “People are critical of the regime” I just assumed they were talking about the US government.
#USPOL
Claiming a former FBI head who _LET POTUS SLIDE_ hurt innocent people is ghoulish. Perhaps Mueller hurt us all by failing to jail or stop potus.
#USpol
Look at the bright side, this lobbyist could use another lobbyist to get his own presidential pardon.
The president is just fine for this cycle of crime-pardon-crime to expand.
#pardons #USA #corruption
Husband of US Labor Secretary barred from Labor Department offices due to sexual assault complaints from staff (free link)
#labor #uspol #LoriChavesDeRemer
Heute vor 56 Jahren: Am 25. Februar 1970 testen die #USA die Atombombe "Cumarin". Operation Mandrel war eine Serie von 53 US-amerikanischen #Kernwaffentests, die 1969 und 1970 hauptsächlich auf der Nevada Test Site in Nevada unterirdisch durchgeführt wurde.
Heute vor 45 Jahren: Am 25. Februar 1981 testen die #USA die Atombombe "Seco". Die Operation #Guardian war eine Serie von 14 US-amerikanischen #Kernwaffentests, die 1980/81 auf der Nevada…
Heute vor 45 Jahren: Am 25. Februar 1981 testen die #USA die #Atombombe "Seco". Die Operation #Guardian war eine Serie von 14 US-amerikanischen
US State Department orders mandatory departure for US Embassy staff in Saudi Arabia. Apparently after a request from the Saudi government.
#SaudiArabia #USEmbassy #evacuation
"Trump’s EPA to roll back rule limiting hazardous mercury from coal plants"
#US #USA #America #FossilFuels
Heute vor 63 Jahren: Am 24. April 1963 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Storax die Atombomben "Kootanai" & "Paisano". Storax war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 62/63 insgesamt 47 Bomben im Testgebiet in
Heute vor 51 Jahren: Am 24. April 1975 testen die #USA die Atombombe "Edam". Die Operation Bedrock war eine Serie von 27 US-amerikanischen #Kernwaffentests, die 1974/75 auf der Nevada Test Site in Nevada unterirdisch durchgeführt wurde.
Heute vor 61 Jahren: Am 23.04.1965 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die 40. Atombombe "Muscovy". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in
Heute vor 54 Jahren: Am 23.03.1972 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Grommet die 27. Atombombe "Sappho". Grommet war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1971/72 insgesamt 39 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in
"March heat surges past 100 in California and Arizona, smashing records"
#US #USA #America #California
"Oil flows again through controversial California pipeline after Trump order"
#US #USA #America #FossilFuels
Heute vor 59 Jahren: Am 23. Februar 1967 testen die #USA die Atombomben "Persimmon" u. "Agile". Die Operation #Latchkey war eine Serie von 38 US-amerikanischen #Kernwaffentests,…
"Analysis: Trump has overseen larger coal decline than any other US president"
#US #USA #America #FossilFuels
Heute vor 61 Jahren: Am 22.04.1965 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die 39. Atombombe "Chenille". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in
"US solar generation reaches 385 TWh in 2025 as power demand rises"
#US #USA #America #SolarPower
Heute vor 61 Jahren: Am 21.04.1965 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die 38. Atombombe "Gum Drop". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in
"US solar installations reach 43 GW in 2025 despite slowdown"
#US #USA #America #SolarPower
Heute vor 59 Jahren: Am 21. April 1967 testen die #USA die Atombombe "Chocolate". Die Operation #Latchkey war eine Serie von 38 US-amerikanischen #Kernwaffentests, die 1966/67 auf der Nev…