President Donald Trump's bruising return to the White House has sent many longtime foreign allies scrambling to get their distance.

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.

  • axhEnglish
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    1 day ago

    The fact that the rest of the world isn’t perfect, doesn’t change the fact that the rule of law in the USA is completely dead and presidents can now do whatever they want.

    You are right about the far-right in the EU, but

    1. EU is not one country and has a lot of institutions, that is a huge weakness when you need to react to a changing world, but in that context it’s actually helping (people might get disappointed with far-left in some parts of EU, before other parts will fully adopt it), and even if Nazi admirers take over more than half of EU countries, it’s enough for one with veto powers to make their life extremely difficult.
    2. A lot of “far-right” in the EU seems to be promoted by ruzzia and now also by the US big tech (twitter is owned by Nazi, Facebook found that hate sells better than other emotions) and the US government does what they can do to block any effort by the EU to control them. So basically cutting ties with the US can help with this