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.
I do follow German news as I live in Europe. The AFD won’t be running the country any time soon, they do not have the numbers for that and all of the other parties have said they will not go into coalition with them. A few high profile wins in the former east Germany who have long had grievance with the former west is not the rise of the next Nazis.
The current US administration has far more in common with the rise of the Nazis than the AFD anyway if you have been paying attention. The capture of the state and judiciary, their own Gestapo in ICE. There are great lists online of all of the parallels with the rise of the Nazis in Germany you can see for yourself. Americans should be afraid and fighting back but they are all too distracted by the next crazy thing trump does or says.
The USA is reliant on the rest of the world buying their debt, as soon as this stops as we are seeing now the USA will be in big trouble. Couple this with the inevitable bursting of the crazy AI bubble and a divided population while your biggest rival in China capitalises on every mistake. The USA has clearly peaked and the question now is will the decline be fast or slow.