With US out of NATO, it is a point closer to Europe to threaten Europe.

The US has Britain, which is essentially a US client state these days.

ushering in the last 16 years of radicalization

Accepting fascism is “radical” now?

Mosquitos.

President of what?

A lot of these are perfectly naive.

It, for example, assumes that mass media wasn’t being controlled beforehand (it always is) and that corporate power wasn’t being protected beforehand (it always is).

Fascism is not some aberration of the liberal nation state - it’s a built-in feature of it.

I live in a dumpster FIRE.

Damn. So that means all males (including me) are technically transgender.

I think I’ll have some coffee, then.

How American Institutions Failed to Meet the Moment

Lol! What failure?

Seems to me that they succeeded in their anti-democratic function, and succeeded spectacularly.

a hegemony with a 100-years tradition of upkeeping democracy against major non-democratic players

Your proof of this is… what?

Latin America was essentially a retirement resort for fascist war criminals after WW2.

It turns out that the dictators who was friendly to US corporate interests was also raging Nazi sympathizers. It must be a complete coincidence though and totally not related at all.

…and the other half was left in Germany to fill up West Germany’s intelligence services.

In This Country, We Hate Nazis

Lol! No they don’t.

The US has always loved fascism. It’s the only one of two political ideologies it endorses.