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.
no it’s not.
let’s be completely honest here. the US is in the news because we have an asshole for a president that outwardly wears his corruption. he doesn’t have enough mental capacity to not say the bad thing out loud.
but make no mistake, almost all world leaders are inwardly pieces of shit. all this posturing will be forgotten the moment a mentally capable leader replaces that bag of shit.
I’m not saying this out of righteous smug indignation. I’m saying it because it happens all the time and it’s the truth.
Disagree. International relationships take a lot of time and resources to create. Structures are being built now in order to circumvent the US, and those won’t just disappear when we elect a new president. Yeah maybe they’ll let us back at the table once Trump is gone, but we won’t be at the head of the table anymore. The rest of the world is figuring out how to function without the US right now. If they succeed, our participation will be irrelevant, which by definition diminishes most of our economic power.
completely agree, and that’s why leaders are outwardly professing their disdain and only taking semi-permanant action against the US. they’re essentially hedging their bets to see how damaging the current regime is without burning the bridges they spent decades building.
this article is only pointing out the political theater that all politicians play.
This is classic what-aboutism at it’s finest. This discussion is not about “Trump bad. Everyone else good!”
No, he’s right. Trump is good optics for murderous white supremacists/bootlicking imperialist vassals in the US and abroad, but not for everyone else. Obama had record bombings, he was just charismatic, looked and talked non rapey and at least pretended to be moral (whilst continuing the imperialistic goals). Anyone distancing from Trump or calling him out is not necessarily doing it due to morality, it can just be convenient for their own power grabbing goals.
Trump is just handling the dismantling of America more than previous presidents, he certainly is the man for the job, and Americans are feeling a small percentage of the pain felt by everyone else inflicted by Burgerland (because, as other countries unite and grow and develop nukes and stuff, the Western elite has to pivot and feed on the local stock) whilst he’s in power and they don’t like it. But things haven’t gotten crazier or more evil, the targets are just changing.
I guess you missed the point also.
it’s literally in the headline!
No, it isn’t. The headline talks about how Trump has soured the US’s relationship with other countries.
It’s possible to make that statement without outright saying “Trump bad!”