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The world rapidly is losing confidence in the U.S. as a result of Trump. "The share of the global public that voices a favorable view of America is on the decline. Across the 37 countries that Pew Research Center has tracked over the past several years, only in Russia has the image of the United States improved by a large margin. Elsewhere, attitudes have taken a dramatic turn for the worse, especially in Western Europe."
The U.S. foreign policy, thus its stature as the leader of the world, is waning with its allies, yet America's adversaries approve of the direction American foreign policy is headed under Trump.
And here're the key reasons: (1) Trump cannot be trusted and (2) Trump cannot be trusted! And as if that alone isn't bad enough, the stuff he does say ranges from insulting to utterly preposterous, all the while terrifying our friends and emboldening our adversaries!
The simple fact is that Trump's inane capriciousness has given the world pause. Whereas, before Trump, sacrosanct lay America's place as the leader of the planet, it isn't now because in the quest for sagacious and reliable guidance, the rest of the world has begun to scry for alternatives, something that wasn't even a vague notion among anyone other than radical/splinter groups and their apologists. Now, however, there is clearly a leadership vacuum and other heads of state vie, with varying degrees of schadenfreude but nonetheless pursuing their countries' increase, to fill it.
The gains are most especially evident on the economic front where America's place was already dubious insofar as it's long been clear that the market potential, thus gains from trade, of China and India multiply dwarf that of the U.S. and Western Europe. A market that is literally three billion people strong, physically connected, and that is in its ascendancy needs nothing but time, and not a lot of it, to relegate the U.S. and Europe to oh-yeah-them status. China and India are today the exact same kind of emerging market that the U.S. was in the 19th and 20th centuries, and they are going to do exactly the same things the U.S. did when it enjoyed that status.
Quite simply, "the genie's out of bottle." Even if America's primacy isn't completely abridged, that the world now considers that there are alternatives to the model of "where goeth America, we shall follow," the U.S.' has a tougher road to hoe from this point forward. If that paradigm shift weren't already underway, Trump, in his abjectly ignorant awareness of world politics and global economics, jump started it.
Then there's the DPRK situation. Just above I wrote about the economic ascendancy of China and India. Well, God forfend there be a war that allows either nation to accelerate their growth just as WWI and WWII did in the U.S., yet that appears to be precisely where Trump would have us go with North Korea. That's just what we need, an armed conflict with an opponent who is more than willing to explode nukes on/over U.S. soil. Just how many of them have to hit -- recognizing that with nuclear explosions, like "horseshoes and hand grenades," close counts -- to materially diminish America's economic might?
What matters materially is what Trump does now, and one's concurrence with that has no bearing on whether it does. Nobody thought a student, Gavrilo Princip, mattered on Saturday, yet on Sunday he became among the most important people in the world. Even though nobody thought Gavrilo mattered, he did, and in a very big way. In an instant on Sunday, he shaped world history for the remainder of history. The situation with the DPRK and what matters about how Trump handles it, notwithstanding what his predecessors did, is nowhere near as befogged, as was Gavrilo's import.
And just what has Trump done to mollify the DPRK situation? Nothing good. He's threatened the DPRK, and KJU doesn't give a damn. He's insulted China's Xi Jinping, the leader of the one nation that holds material political and economic sway with the DPRK. He's said that if China won't solve our problem for us, he will, but Trump's done nothing but talk sh*t, and KJU just successfully tested an ICBM that's even more capable than is the one he fired off last month. Trump's given rise to Europe's and Japan's questioning America's military commitment to them. So what can the U.S. expect of them if the DPRK situation escalates into an armed conflict, to say nothing of it becoming a nuclear one, which KJU seems more than happy to let it do? They can't rely on "Ameri-Trump," he/we thus have no rightful basis to rely on them.
The stuff I've noted above is just the beginning. Trump has managed in six short months to f*ck and create a clusterf*ck of U.S. primacy, alliances, and economic dominance. And then there are the Trumpkins, people whose most noteworthy traits is there procrustean sycophantism for Trump and that they are, as a group, are about the only people in the U.S. who are, unbelievable as it is, dumber and more ignorant about everything than is their eponymous leader.
The U.S. foreign policy, thus its stature as the leader of the world, is waning with its allies, yet America's adversaries approve of the direction American foreign policy is headed under Trump.
And here're the key reasons: (1) Trump cannot be trusted and (2) Trump cannot be trusted! And as if that alone isn't bad enough, the stuff he does say ranges from insulting to utterly preposterous, all the while terrifying our friends and emboldening our adversaries!
The simple fact is that Trump's inane capriciousness has given the world pause. Whereas, before Trump, sacrosanct lay America's place as the leader of the planet, it isn't now because in the quest for sagacious and reliable guidance, the rest of the world has begun to scry for alternatives, something that wasn't even a vague notion among anyone other than radical/splinter groups and their apologists. Now, however, there is clearly a leadership vacuum and other heads of state vie, with varying degrees of schadenfreude but nonetheless pursuing their countries' increase, to fill it.
The gains are most especially evident on the economic front where America's place was already dubious insofar as it's long been clear that the market potential, thus gains from trade, of China and India multiply dwarf that of the U.S. and Western Europe. A market that is literally three billion people strong, physically connected, and that is in its ascendancy needs nothing but time, and not a lot of it, to relegate the U.S. and Europe to oh-yeah-them status. China and India are today the exact same kind of emerging market that the U.S. was in the 19th and 20th centuries, and they are going to do exactly the same things the U.S. did when it enjoyed that status.
Quite simply, "the genie's out of bottle." Even if America's primacy isn't completely abridged, that the world now considers that there are alternatives to the model of "where goeth America, we shall follow," the U.S.' has a tougher road to hoe from this point forward. If that paradigm shift weren't already underway, Trump, in his abjectly ignorant awareness of world politics and global economics, jump started it.
Then there's the DPRK situation. Just above I wrote about the economic ascendancy of China and India. Well, God forfend there be a war that allows either nation to accelerate their growth just as WWI and WWII did in the U.S., yet that appears to be precisely where Trump would have us go with North Korea. That's just what we need, an armed conflict with an opponent who is more than willing to explode nukes on/over U.S. soil. Just how many of them have to hit -- recognizing that with nuclear explosions, like "horseshoes and hand grenades," close counts -- to materially diminish America's economic might?
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What matters materially is what Trump does now, and one's concurrence with that has no bearing on whether it does. Nobody thought a student, Gavrilo Princip, mattered on Saturday, yet on Sunday he became among the most important people in the world. Even though nobody thought Gavrilo mattered, he did, and in a very big way. In an instant on Sunday, he shaped world history for the remainder of history. The situation with the DPRK and what matters about how Trump handles it, notwithstanding what his predecessors did, is nowhere near as befogged, as was Gavrilo's import.
And just what has Trump done to mollify the DPRK situation? Nothing good. He's threatened the DPRK, and KJU doesn't give a damn. He's insulted China's Xi Jinping, the leader of the one nation that holds material political and economic sway with the DPRK. He's said that if China won't solve our problem for us, he will, but Trump's done nothing but talk sh*t, and KJU just successfully tested an ICBM that's even more capable than is the one he fired off last month. Trump's given rise to Europe's and Japan's questioning America's military commitment to them. So what can the U.S. expect of them if the DPRK situation escalates into an armed conflict, to say nothing of it becoming a nuclear one, which KJU seems more than happy to let it do? They can't rely on "Ameri-Trump," he/we thus have no rightful basis to rely on them.
The stuff I've noted above is just the beginning. Trump has managed in six short months to f*ck and create a clusterf*ck of U.S. primacy, alliances, and economic dominance. And then there are the Trumpkins, people whose most noteworthy traits is there procrustean sycophantism for Trump and that they are, as a group, are about the only people in the U.S. who are, unbelievable as it is, dumber and more ignorant about everything than is their eponymous leader.
