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A Boring Dystopia
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Hard at work unbecoming a first world country.
Well yeah, that too, but what does Trump and the Russian Traitor caucus trying to pull us out of NATO have to do with it? This is more about regressing from "developed" to "developing."
"First world" doesn't refer to the division between western bloc and eastern bloc anymore. The Three Worlds Model isn't used for modern international relations. Now the term "first world" refers to highly developed industrialized countries, i.e. basically a capitalist country with a stable economy and a high standard of living. Many US allies (including some NATO members) aren't first world, although developed countries tend to be NATO-aligned (except Hong Kong/Macau, if you count those, and Singapore). "Third world" also certainly doesn't refer to unaligned countries anymore.