vadimivich
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its true look how much our soft power is working in syria, iraq, turkey, iran, russia, china and north korea. Now trump ruined it. Before Iran only screamed death to america and kidnapped navy soldiers and humiliated them and threatned to wipe isreal off the planet all the while funding terrorist wars by proxy. Now that trump wrecked our soft power they can really get down to fucking the US over.
I don't even know where to start. Soft power is the US's greatest tool to create coalitions, to pressure for social and humanitarian changes that bring about longterm political change, etc. China is a goddamn gold fucking plated monument to US soft power, for one example.
Soft power does not resolve small flashpoints, and it's not immediate. It's not for the impatient. It's something earned over a long period of time and applied over a long period of time. It's the #1 thing that Russia is insanely jealous of the US for having, and the #1 they have not earned and yet yearn so badly to have. And for us to just throw away something that has taken us 75 years to build slowly piece by piece is utterly suicidally insane.
It's also why we have professional, career diplomats who deeply understand the role they have serving the US in these areas. It's why they last from administration to administration, because this is an institutional process and knowledge that is utterly priceless. For the Trump administration to gut the senior staff of the State Department was unthinkable and grossly irresponsible.