The rest of the countries carried on without the USA and to add to the irony, China applied to join it in 2021.
His claimed anti-China stance is one of his most effective lies.
They don't travel abroad, can't point to other countries on a map... The level of international awareness is staggeringly low.
These policies only make sense under that common delusion
I wish it didnt have to come to this, but here we are, direction is clear. No point waiting that next election cycle will be much different, it won't be.
Let's say this was SomewhereElsistan and they elected someone who just cancelled contracts, backed out of treaties, refused to pay balances, fired entire departments and maybe even arrest your international colleague working there and sent them to a foreign concentration camp.
Afterwards they elect Johnny Reasonable who doesn't do this.
Would you go back with any kind of assurance it wouldn't happen again? Nobody stopped the first guy.
The US reputation in international markets is hosed for decades unless some dramatic reversal and patching comes in, by both Congress and the courts or some wild thing where the states override the federal government somehow.
Otherwise the trust is gone for decades, perhaps forever.
Once oil starts trading in parallel in RMB, the only thing going for US will be waning momentum and its military, while China will be in reverse situation.
Just like putin being arrogant and aggressive about Ukraine wanting to join NATO, causing Finland and Sweden to join (which they wouldn't do otherwise), he is causing what he is causing. I am fixing my floating mortgage on monday, we have currently 0.2% SNB rate but the risk of it shooting up is massive.
The savvy international graduate student can't vote. We're talking about people who fill in ballots.
Voters are more likely to speak only English, not have a passport and live in less ethnically diverse neighborhoods. No reputable numerical survey disputes this.
There's substantial empirical evidence here. Maybe it disagrees with your optimism and vibes but sorry, that's not how the world works
I personally think if you claim to be a global superpower than even people in other countries are a stakeholder and should be allowed to vote in your elections but that's another topic
This is actually untrue. 2024 was one of those elections where both candidates were so bad, that the winner didn't even need 50% of the cast votes. More and more of those lately, but there it is.
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/elections/2024
You'll not that Trump and Vance got 49.1% of the popular vote, and Kamala and Walz got 48.3% of the popular vote. They, none of them, could even muster 50%.
Yeah..
it was that bad.
"Not All Americans" is looking like a pretty shit response at this point. Especially when major chunk of that 50% still underscores some of the major talking points of the Trump people even when they oppose Trump.
On the surface this actually isn't too terrible. But the problem is that Trump is an idiot and he is the one who has to navigate this.
There is no point in making a deal with someone who will not respect any deals. Remember the deal with Mexico and Canada in the first Trump mandate? They made a new agreement and that's what they received as payment. Any country or block that deals with this administration is basically lunatic or in deep despair.
I mean I totally agree here. The goal however will be a deal that lasts decades and hopefully trump will be a rekoning and we will see a return to more stability in the future.
It seems we are boarding this bus no matter what, and Trump is driver. If he flies off a cliff, then we can all say "told you so" to the right on the way down, for whatever that is worth.
If you could travel to 2075 you're likely to find places like Vietnam and Nigeria rising economic stars.
People will be traveling around Africa in an HSR network https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposed_high-speed_rail_by_... to bustling metropolises in places like Kenya and Ethiopia.
South East Asian countries like Thailand and Malaysia will have valuable international companies.
The customers in Columbus Ohio won't really be relevant.