It is a very good development overall, but it does probably mean than the US is going to become even more aggressive than they already are. For the vassals, it's not going to be fun for either classes. The American loyalists' influence is going to evaporate at warp speed, that's guarantied, but it's not clear who is gonna take their place. As for imperialism and power projection, imperialism is based mainly on unequal economic base development resulting in unequal exchange of wealth, so it's going to continue until the material conditions of the exploited nations change, US power projection is not going to end but merely change form, the shutdown of foreign aid probably implies the abandonment of the overarching narrative control and color revolution doctrine of regime change in favor to a more covert pre-1960s CIA style approach.

[–] Jabril@hexbear.net 22 points 3 days ago

Yes I think their strategy changing doesn't mean an end to regime change operations and military force against enemies, it just means paying for that with the money saved from aid and subsidies for allies drying up.

Of course this is still good overall, because more nations will become US enemies and the US will become increasingly isolated. Even if countries are successfully bullied into worse positions by the US, they won't be happy about losing vassalization, and if they are forward thinking they will know that pivoting to being under the stability of BRICS+ is the only sober path forward.

It's going to get worse for the citizens mperial core and vassals but we could see improvements for people elsewhere at the same time