Donald Trump’s bruising return to the White House has sent many longtime foreign allies scrambling to get their distance, and according to a new piece from The Atlantic, that distance will last long after Trump is gone.
Trump’s second term as president has been marked by notable and widespread disrespect toward nations once seen as close U.S. allies. Between his attempts to level massive tariffs against nearly every nation in the world and his frequent breaches of diplomatic norms, Trump has created a hostile global environment in which allies no longer feel safe trusting in the stability of the U.S.
In a new piece for The Atlantic on Tuesday, staff writer Vivian Salama argued that this new dynamic, in which the nations of the world are working to establish a safe distance from the U.S., is bound to become the new normal for years to come, even after Trump leaves office and is potentially replaced by a more traditional, dependable administration.
Because it’s not trump.
The whole damned US framework facilitated this little shitheel. And its shown you are not to be trusted, and unfit to operate on an international stage
The average American citizen wont understand or care about this, and yet I do imagine there are pretty negative long term implications for them, along with all the other garbage being piled onto them.
I brought up that the cost of diesel has gone up massively (particularly at the start of the Iran conflict) and has started to rapidly balloon again to a co-worker at my 2nd job said he did not care about the price of diesel because he doesn’t use diesel…
I carefully explained to him that everything is shipped over land is using diesel and this will cause the price of everything to go up and he pushed back again saying “Well everything is going up in price anyway.” Its like dude WTF do you even do with people like this? I did not even touch on the expense of using heavy construction and farming machinery also increasing costs of everything…
He described himself once as someone who agrees with democrats on social issues but thinks republicans are better on the economy and I internally was like DUUUUDE THIS IS THE FUCKING REPUBLICAN ECONOMY RIGHT NOW YOU FUCKING TROGLODYTE AAAHAHHAHAHA WE FUCKING DESERVVVVE THIIIIIIIISSSS.
The end of an empire ?
I always knew conservatives (regressives) would destroy America. I just didn’t think it would be so fast and so aggressively stupid.
The only way we can even begin to fix this is if the entire Trump crime family & their enablers are indicted & incarcerated. The entire cabinet belongs in prison or in RFK Jr’s case, executed for innumerable counts of Depraved Heart Murder.
No. Trump is just a symptom .
We desperately need the US Empire to fall. They lead war all around the world for decades and most conflicts are born from them or our two precedent empires : Russian and English.
They simply have too much power and absolutely 0 ethic.
As an American, won’t the US falling affect us too?
Will affect the whole world and, of course, people living in the US first.
I’m not saying that lightly. I live upstairs (Canada) and we would be highly impacted too.
Yet, I’m persuaded the US empire will and should fall. We need to move away from neo liberalism or we’ll simply all die and/or live miserable lives. AI, ecology, war, choose your poison.
Be careful what you wish for.
We desperately need the US Empire to fall.
I dunno, like I see where this is coming from, and partially even would agree, but the power vacuum would also be disastrous.
…and personally I’d just like to know what the hell to do about it in the grand scheme of things, so me and the rest of my peasant family and the rest of us aren’t stuck suffering and holding the entire bill on account of a handful of monsters bent on ruining the world.
A reminder to study how people pushed through the collapse of their homelands in the past…
Edit: lmao at the downvote like “you aren’t people, USAmerican, get fked 🖕” LOL
Yeah, I feel you.
If there is ONE thing I can give to Trump, it’s that he’s preparing the world for it.
He’s destroying NATO as it exists, ruining the petrol dollar, destroying the US soft power world-wide. I don’t think anyone did more for EV and solar than him the last year…
But yeah, it will be a mess. From my pov, the natural filler would be China. It as pros, it has cons. EU could gain a lot too but I really fear they won’t have the wisdom to move away enough to net get caught by the blast.
We’ll see I guess ^^
At least from my perspective there is a big party that said they are on board with it so there need to happen a lot of things but going back to have America so deeply integrated should never be done.
After WW2 the us wanted Germany to not be armed and now they complain. America wanted eu not be armed. Now to say we are abusing usa? NA there is a lot of stuff you guys need to change but I’m the meantime we need to get rid of our dependence and cut some ties.
No argument here. I think the EU was stupid for allowing any of this to continue this long. Those ties should have been cut in 2016.
At the same time, you’re very much about to have your own set of fash problems between Ruzzia, the AfD, Meloni & LePen. Good luck.
In the end, the world will thank Trump for freeing them from American shackles. I hope that this is the beginning of the end of US dominance.
Trump is going down in history as the environmental President forcing the world to buy EVs or starve.
That, to me, is the truly ironic part.
It’s not that anyone is going to thank him. He’s an asshole and let him die in ignominy. But if we can survive his fucking around, there is a better world on the other side of it where one country doesn’t get to lord over anyone else.
For Europe, it’s a long overdue reality check that we were way to dependent on the US for defense.
This is not what Trump intended, so he does not get credit for that from me but there are benefits.
Not only defense. Software!
Right? Thanks for massive Linux and renewable energy adoption , moron hahahaha.
I’ll take a faint glimmer of silver lining there.
Defense, computing, electronic payments…
I agree… we just fall behind. Comfort is never a good thing for progress.
In 2000, the Simpson’s episode “Bart to the Future” predicted a Trump presidency that left the economy in shambles for Lisa. It’s funny how mild it’s foreboding prediction when compared to what his actual presidency has become. I realize his support is tanking, but it’s still way too high, specially for a now severely compromised federal system.
I hope the entire world turns its back on America.
If they can do this to me, one of its own citizens, imagine what they’ll do to you.
because I’ve been hurt I want to hurt them
gee, that sounds eerily familiar. where have I heard that mentality before I wonder…
Maybe stop hurting the rest of the world.
??? That’s not at all what was said.
let’s break it down into the three statements.
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I hope the entire world turns its back on America.
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If they can do this to me, one of its own citizens,
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imagine what they’ll do to you.
Statement 2 has identified them and implies that statement 1 has happened to them.
Statement 2 has a qualifier, they are a citizen of the US.
Statement 1 expresses they hope the world turns their back on the US like they have implied happened to them in statement 2.
Statement 3 is a direct threat to you that the US will force statement 1 on you just like them in statement 2.
when you reduce it down, logically, they are saying: “I hope Americans are hurt because Americans hurt me, and they’ll hurt you like they hurt me, so hurt them first because I want them to be hurt like they hurt me.”
this is logic 101 shit.
this is logic 101 shit.
I wish you’d have used some logic on your first reply, you’ve just added nonsense.
then please, by all means enlighten me with your logical assessment of their comment.
It was very self explanatory.
ok, so you’re just a troll.
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It’s not accident or short-sighted incompetence either, it’s direct from the fascist playbook. Fascism and Authoritarianism feeds on crises and enemies, so if you don’t have any of those you need to manufacture some.
Not just the fascist playbook. You have to mix that all up with rampant moroniscism and blundering inability. Kinda like a badly built ikea shelf.
As plausible as this seems, I don’t think it was that deliberate. The guy is a moron. This was all done by accident, and the fallout happened to be what is recognizable as fascism.
Trump is a moron, self centered and easily manipulated by the people around him.
He’s surrounded himself with fascists who are absolutely delighted at how things are going.
He’s a puppet.
This seems to be the ideal archetype for a Republican “leader.” Always some doofus who listens to the shadow government’s every whim and claims it was his own idea the whole time.
But in the past, there was this facade of respectability, rather than just being an overgrown schoolyard bully who dropped out in 2nd grade.
Look at him salute. He’s an embarrassment and no one has the courage to tell him to stop saluting like a drunkard. Plus it’s a disrespect to the military and I’m not even a military guy.
You deserve it for by ing an evil empire
America First? America Alone.
Delegating your security to any other country, like much of the world has done for decades with the US, is never a good idea. Europe did this after WW2 because so much of it was destroyed by war. Allowing the US to continue as their sugar daddy for so long is at least partially on them. Canada is feeling the sting of this too right now.
If a country can’t provide for most of its own needs in terms of goods, services and energy, it has no real sovereignty.
US soft power is gone like an orange pedo fart.
Based on reliable reporting from the WH, those farts are anything but gone… I’m afraid the next president will have to replace all the furniture, all the carpets, curtains, and the paintings will need to be decontaminated too.
the available evidence shows that those actually hang around for a while
