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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/10/2026

From oil to dollars, telecoms infrastructure to the internet itself, Donald Trump is doing everything in his power to end the American empire: pluralistic.net/2026/05/16/t...

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Pluralistic: Making sense of Trump’s unscheduled sudden midair disassembly of the American empire (16 May 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/10/2026

A post-American world is on the horizon. What that world will look like is undecided. The US was always a wildly defective trusted third party, but it retained its status as the world's platform for generations thanks to the absence of credible alternatives.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/10/2026

Now - as Mark Carney told the Davos crowd last year - the old system has "ruptured": www.weforum.org/stories/foru...

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Davos 2026: Special address by Mark Carney, PM of Canada

Canadian PM Mark Carney stressed the end of the rules-based international order and urged middle powers to act together to counter the great power rivalry.

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Arvīds Kokins @archo5.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

wdym by "post-American" exactly? even if the federal US collapses, I'm not foreseeing any structural issues e.g. for the stock exchanges in NYC (cities tend to survive the rise and fall of regimes far better anyway) unless the US dollar collapses completely or something

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