Yeah, their foreign policies are pretty similar. America's tragically had the same shitty foreign policy for decades now.
Wow though, Biden's shown more signs of aggression toward Venezuela than Trump? Can I get a citation on that? Because the Trump admin has been truly terrible to Venezuela. Syria though... you're probably right.
The Grayzone are an independent news source about imperialism. Whether you're left wing or right wing, just longer you follow an anti-imperialist philosophy then you will find yourself in agreement. They have a pretty good take on Joe Biden and Venezuela.
That and the fact he has a habit of going on about how tougher he would be than Trump on Venezuela and it doesn't sound like Joe Biden wants to give them generous foreign aid either. Actually Venezuela won't accept foreign aid from the US (it's a proven historical fact that foreign aid has been used as a tool of imperialism), but western media never reports that they already accept foreign aid from Cuba, China, Russia, Iran etc etc.
They'll still keep talking about how they won't accept foreign aid from the US because the government of Venezuela just wants to commit suicide for no reason apparently; a bit of critical thinking will make anyone realise just how silly that is. No matter how bad the government seems by the media, the last thing they want is instability. The ones willing to install another Pinochet-like government who use tax payers money to throw people out of helicopters are the bad ones however.
Here's some proven lies that was used to justify imperialism. There's a bunch more but I'm only going to list some -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'état
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate_Report_on_Pre-war_Intelligence_on_Iraq
Anything you hear about a foreign country is probably outright lies if you look into the source of it.
I don't really believe that Trump was accelerating the end of the American empire. I think the only thing can really end American imperialism is a hit to America's economic power. As long as we're the world's largest economy and largest military, our head of state can be as much of a POS as he/she likes.
I was more on about the instability Trump has caused and how a lot of the problems he embraced were already there, just that he accelerated it and the mess will just keep piling up no matter how fast anyone else will clean it.
I'm on about the accelerated debt, deregulation of environmental protections, radical ideologies becoming more accepted, greater resistance, letting a pandemic go out of control, rise of far right extremism, riots about police brutality, common civil unrest etc etc. Don't forget the wealth inequality where it was already at similar levels before the French revolution (not joking) where they pulled out the guillotine because wealth inequality went through the roof at one point.
It has only accelerated from here and will continue to do so if the fundamental issues are not addressed.
In terms of GDP (PPP) then China already overtakes the US by quite a bit. EU would have been bigger than the US if the UK didn't leave (in nominal terms too) -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)
Don't forget when the US was experiencing the financial crisis where the economy looked like it was going to collapse while China was growing at almost 10%. Even under this pandemic not only China got the pandemic under control, but the economy was the only major one growing in the world at one point while in the US the healthcare system was getting strained, economy was down the toilet, unemployment went through the roof, more people died from the virus than Americans in WW1, constant civil unrest etc etc
Remember the trade war Trump started which turned out to be a fail? Not only it was a fail where he just created a bunch of angry farmers in the US, but he literally encouraged even the European Union to start de-dollarisation (which they'll continue even after Trump lost the election) which not so long was thought to just be impossible for them to do as they were considered very loyal to the US. Remember why maintaining the petro-dollar is important? Before the Iraq invasion, they started to accept only Euros not dollars when selling their oil -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dedollarisation
Japan has started to become more neutral and South Korea has just outright refused to support the US at the UN; both are/were considered very loyal to the US. Right now you already have the majority of the world voting against the US while in favour of China. Just look at the UN Hong Kong vote or anything else related to China and the UN. Pro-China politicians and businessmen are started to influence more of Japan and more so of South Korea as they rely more on China's economy than the US. A friend of my from South Korea told me that the younger generation wants the US military to leave her country. The Philippines which used to be a US colony and culturally very pro US, now has a president who's like Trump(maybe crazier, but not as dumb), but instead of saying America first, he proudly says fuck America. All of them recently signed the worlds largest trade deal which puts the EU's to shame -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_Comprehensive_Economic_Partnership
Actually even the EU started strengthening ties with China and didn't listen to Trump to fully ban Huawei (the ban he made also failed considering it's now overtaken apple and close to overtaking Samsung this year lol). Even my Xiaomi phone imported from China has overtaken Apple in sales recently. EU needs gas from Russia too and Germany who is considered the leader of the EU has been surprisingly friendly with them.
The US actually waged a trade war against Japan just like China recently who Japan at the time had around 1/3 of the US population yet over 50% of the economic power while still growing fast which is pretty impressive. You want to know why Japan has been in decades long of stagnation and recession? It's because Japan surrendered in the trade war and gave up their country which lead to this -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaza_Accord
However I still think US imperialism will continue as long as nothing fundamentally changes as Joe Biden said; unless the main problem is addressed. Just that based on the past years with Obama's second term and Trumps term, the government hasn't been as successful in its imperialism like it used to be especially under Trumps government where Iran, Bolivia, Venezuela, Syria etc etc haven't been invaded or completely overthrown and any any attempts at it failed. He also failed to contain China miserably and all he done was made the US loyal allies now closer to their enemies. That and the fact there has been more instability in the US, and in lots of declining civilisations whenever there's too much civil unrest they send the army back home. The decline of the US has been a huge growing topic in geopolitics more recently. You know how Afghanistan is called "the graveyard of empires" and how the US is struggling to keep things under control there? Recently they made a compromise with the Taliban...
I thought George Bush and Obama were train wrecks, but then Trump comes out of nowhere and was like "hold my beer".
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