- cross-posted to:
- world@quokk.au
- cross-posted to:
- world@quokk.au
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.
I’m explaining that the US allies are turning their backs because checks and balances are failing, providing examples of those failures as requested.
You are arguing about the difference between the 4th and 14th amendment.
The lurking jury can decide who is the bad faith sealion.
You’re arguing that the checks and balances are failing, but have been unable to provide any actual examples due to all of your claims being poorly reasoned, and based on information that’s verifiably false.
I didn’t argue the different between the 4th and 14th amendments. You tried to compare a right that doesn’t exist to one that explicitly does. You incorrectly stated a right to abortion was implicitly covered by the constitution by comparing it to the right to protect personal property from unreasonable searches and seizure. But the latter is explicitly covered in the constitution. The former is not. A bad faith argument that stems from you not knowing and not caring what’s actually in the constitution.
You are the bad faith sealion because you argue with the purpose of exhausting me into giving up by making a number of specious, low-effort arguments from a place of willful ignorance, where you get to make any claim without the burden evidence or reason behind it, but force me to respond from a place of knowledge and understanding.
Ok, let’s try this differently.
In your opinion, why are the allies of the US turning away, and why is this permanent (i.e. more than just Trump)?
They’re turning away because the US is causing them economic harm.
It’s not permanent, but it is longer term than Trump because the soft power the US built in the last 75 years was due to the aftermath of WW2 and the decades of economic inertia that followed, and once those allies diversify their trade, there’d be no reason for them to go back to their over reliance on American trade (unless America gives them a very compelling reason to).
Trade with Canada and Mexico will be least affected among the US’ allies though because at the end of the day the USA is the worlds largest consumer economy and without the tariffs it’s just cheaper to export to the US than across an ocean. It’s Americas allies across the pond that will take the longest to recover