The US is ranked as a 'Flawed Democracy', what needs to change?

[Qwark]

Ashadelo said:

When you have people like Biden in power no one takes the US seriously anymore. You have no idea how many mock videos I see on 微博，抖音，微信 etc making him out to be an absolute airhead. Yes, I know they are all government funded and run, but still. His whole party is a joke on the world stage, just look at the US recent relationship with Saudi Arabia shows the world that no one takes the US seriously anymore.

The USA can cripple the entire Saudi and Chinese economy if they pass some laws and make Europe obey them too. The Uyghur act and European force labour act will hurt the Chinese economy big time. If they also will get their shit together on the chip end together with EU. The Chinese economy will go down rather fast. It's stupid to not take seriously the 2 places on earth where all upcoming economies will depend on to make money.

Same with oil if US will become the primary delivery of fossil fuels to Europe, it will hurt the OPEC countries by a lot. Another non exploitative act from the USA and EU could easily make that happen. The USA is still by far the most powerful country economically, technologically and military, only rivaled on some aspects by the EU, mostly tech because the EU economy is way smaller and will face a big crisis because cheap energy is something of the past for the coming decade. Not taking the US serious is about as dumb as you can get on the world stage.

Last edited by Qwark - on 27 October 2022