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.
Those mostly turned out to just be gentleman’s agreements. As an Americsn, it seems Australia and other countries may have actually put these things into laws with consequences. Sounds nice
Ah, the cockiness.
US also has laws and this administration simply ignores, because there’s no one to enforce them. The reason for it is that people who could enforce them are either on board with the new world order or are blackmailed, the ones that would stop it were purged from the government during DOGE stage (they likely also found more blackmail material, through use of LLM).
It is crazy what can be done with help of foreign governments and the richest people on earth.
They are interested in changing the world not just the US, seems like biggest attention right now is put on Germany and France, but this effort is placed everywhere.
People born in a democracy take it for granted as if this is something inevitable, when in reality democracy is very fragile and requires constant work to blossom.
Thinking “we are safe” is how it happened in US, Hungary, Poland, Turkey. And historically Weimar Republic was a democracy until Hitler took over.