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US Navy destroyer adrift in South China Sea for four days after losing power
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 17 Aug 2026
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Not JUST your military. They've also destroyed every ounce of soft power the US had built up over the last century.... Including the entire post WW2 international order that the US itself established to the immense benefit of the US.
If Trump was a Manchurian candidate he couldn't be doing a better job. The only reason I know this is self inflicted and not a foreign coup is because trump would be incapable of a) taking orders or b) remembering a plan