Americans opposed to Trump shouldn't assume that the United States can't be replaced. In many strategic fields it can and probably will be.

April 11, 2026 - 11:28 UTC

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And should be.
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Iโ€™d guess the people opposed to Trump are pretty aware of this.

Itโ€™s the supporters of Trump who think his dismantling of government is orthogonal to American leadership in tech, pharma, etc.
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nah

US exceptionalism is very much a bipartisan position

a lot of regular people don't buy into it but they don't really get political representation
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Absolutely not. Most of the Democratic party believes that as soon as they win an election things will go back to normal and they won't actually need to *do* anything.

They believe this is a temporary hiccup.
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Human capital goes where the returns on human capital appreciate and are appreciated. And given the tendency of information to turn out to be footloose and of financial capital seeking to maximize financial returns, advances in STEM fields arenโ€™t and wonโ€™t be geographically-constrained longer term.
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It will need to be.
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When the petrodollar is replaced by the petroyuan there won't be a US for much long after. Japan will also have to sell off US Treasury bonds soon which will just hasten the decline of the US
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there are very few things the ccp wants less in the world than to replace the dollar with a petroyuan

that would be terrible for them
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Action leads to reaction, which leads to action that leads to reaction & so on. Fast forward twenty years, nothing is the same.

People always overestimate the immediate impact & underestimate the long term one.

Trumps long term US impact is jaw dropping, it's coming & already cannot be stopped.
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European Defence, Science, Science funding and access to Global talent, Capital Markets, Reliance on US Finance Plumbing, Chips, Nuclear, Enlargement, Trade Deals, relations with Canada, UK, Japan, Turkey, Ukraine and Norway...

All undergoing massive long term changes.

All making Europe stronger.
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Didn't one of the UKs largest pharma companies cancel plans to build a massive new site in the UK in favour of building one in the US instead?

Looks a bit silly now.
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