The US is made up of 350 million people. Only one of them is Donald Trump. Most of the country didn’t vote for him. We still value our friends and allies, even if the stooge Putin got elected does not.
We're fully aware that the guy who put tariffs because he got angry at us on a whim is the same guy who can launch the nukes.
The fact that that happened shows something is deeply wrong in the US.
The US government, (mostly) democratically elected, has decided to harm the rest of the world.
Even if there are good people in the US, they can't seem to win. So one could argue, what use are the good people in the US, for everyone else?
So the reaction is kind of expected and natural.
I'll allow it.
But that doesn't change the fact that there are good people in the US.
But good and bad are a bit irrelevant. I believe it was a mistake to go poking Europe with a stick because there are 600 million people there. Most far better educated than us. They were perfectly contented to sleep in the then current global order, and willing to help with maintaining that order if called on in an emergency.
For some incomprehensible reason, we decide to go over there and poke that lion?
I don't get it because I genuinely believe that Europe would be the best partner for the US. It's not because I'm "good" or "bad", but because I believe close relations with Europe are good for this republic. Now obviously, in the US at the moment, mine is not the consensus view. That's fine. But I believe it's gonna cost us.
China and the EU will become closer. All of Asia will begin to realize there is more to be gained by working together than working at odds with each other.
And heaven help the rest of the world if the Europeans, the Chinese, and the Africans ever figure out that if they work together they don't really need the rest of us.
That doesn't matter when the bad people are running the border crossing and could ruin your life on a whim.
That's the part I just don't understand, they think after the willful crash of the US economy the rest of the world will bail us out because...
It makes a lot more sense to invest the "seven trillion dollars" or whatever number they're throwing around in their own economies rather than build up the manufacturing base of someone else. Spanish factories in Spain versus Spanish factories in the US.
Then, assuming these companies do invest all this money in the US, they will just complain how the foreigners are buying up all the "strategic assets" and are a "clear and present danger" to American Sovereignty. America is not for sale, don't ya know?
It doesn't matter if you didn't vote for this guy. You collectively didn't do enough to stop him from getting reelected and now you're not doing enough to stop him from hurting former allies.
Fix your domestic problems and then we can look towards starting up a dialogue of reconciliation.
Most of the country couldn't vote at all because they are immigrants (not citizens) or because of any of the structural reasons why they couldn't take time off to vote or they were intimated at the ballot box. Voting day still isn't a federal holiday.
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/elections/2024
Trump/Vance got 49.1% of the popular vote, and Kamala/Walz got 48.3% of the popular vote. None of those clowns even cracked 50%.
The candidates were so bad, that you could win without getting a majority of the popular vote.
So, yeah, just a wholesale failure by both sides to inspire the vast majority of Americans. I guess right now, we're kind of seeing why no one was enthused about these guys being in power.
Anyway, what about vote by mail? Also voting day could be changed to Sunday.
If anything I feel sympathy for the American people now that I and many others feel strongly compelled to avoid US services and products, and avoid travelling and spending my tourist and business dollars into your economy based on the actions of Trump and the Republicans!