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.

  • Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    As an American I have no doubt that our relationship with our allies will improve once we restore some sanity to the White House, but we’ve forced our allies to diversify their trade to brunt the impact of our tariffs and now that they’ve done so I don’t see any sane reason why they would undo that.

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      1 month ago

      Well then you haven’t been paying attention.

      We have committed some of the worst war crimes of the modern era

      We threatened to INVADE MULTIPLE ALLIES

      We have constantly lied and broken multiple signed agreements

      Our allies have permanently changed large scale trade operations to China for stability

      The dollar has decreased in value

      Allies have removed bonds and gold reserves from our country.

      Allowed a bloated and swollen pedophilic rapist to go on tv and threaten to nuke a civilization at the UN

      Ostracized ourselves by launching state run media and threatening to dismantle the ICC (which is investigating us for warcrimes)

      Allowed the president’s family to invade and steal islands from sovereign nations (we all know what they want islands for)

      And more!

      No. There is no going back. The country was couped and is dead. Take a look at who is running every agency within government and you go ahead and tell yourself in the mirror that when trump doesn’t accept the election results, he won’t, that Kash Patel and Tom Homan will send DHS and the FBI to arrest trump. Maybe the Military run by kegsbreath and the businessman secretaries will come get him? Maybe the US Marshals will come get him- oh wait, they gave Trump a marshal badge and said he is the “highest law enforcement officer in the land”

      A country of delusional peasants.