US citizens, even after seeing how disastrous Trump's first Presidency was, voted him back into the Presidency a 2nd time.I trusted Germany under Angela Merkel despite their having some questionable leaders in the past.
You don't recover from that level of idiocy. That will always be what the world will expect from Americans and how could you ever trust them going forward.
On top of which the government has been suppressing that aspect of our history harder than pretty much anything.That's weird, nobody else in this topic has had trouble keeping up with the USA's clearly stated foreign policy that has been in place for literally generations.
On top of which the government has been suppressing that aspect of our history harder than pretty much anything. So its not odd for people to have not noticed."Suppressing" here is totally fucking bonkers.
"Suppressing" here is totally fucking bonkers.Shit, Israel (arguably deliberately) attacked a US ship during the Six-Day War with aircraft and torpedo boats, and the most we ever got out of them was a weak apology.
Since when has unconditional US support of Israel been any kind of secret? That's the one constant of US foreign policy ever since the founding of Israel.
As just one example (of literally hundreds), we have decades of US vetos at the UN security council being single-handedly responsible for no real international action on I/P.
We can get most it back with a non Republican. Will take years to fully get the trust back, assuming they are reasonable.That's very optimistic because the US being a tire fire internationally is because of the Republican menace, not just Trump, and nobody thinks the Republican menace is going to be dealt with.
Even if, by some miracle, legitimate elections exist moving forward, Democrats aren't going to be able to fix things fast enough for morons to not decide to give Republicans another chance to fuck up everything even harderRemind me why we let idiots get an equal say in politics?
How could Germany have recovered its international reputation in the mid 1930s?
By utterly losing a war and being occupied and split into two countries for decades?At this point, so be it.
By utterly losing a war and being occupied and split into two countries for decades?
The USA cannot recover from this until there's major reforms to government that massively reduces the power of the executive branch and also reforms to the judicial branch to enforce ethics.
Basically its going to take a number of amendments to the constitution, good luck.
How could Germany have recovered its international reputation in the mid 1930s?So you're saying the only way forward is for Canada, Mexico, the EU and China to split the US between them?
Anyway, I've been living in East Germany for over a year now and its become obvious to me that some scars don't heal. I wouldn't wish that on the US
What do you mean? About the Holocaust or losing WW2?https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/c/cc3bbf77.jpg
And the only thing that will accomplish anything in terms of repairing the country or fighting against Trump is pure populist rage. Democrats will not save you, Americans chose to neuter them. At this point I have very little faith in Americans rediscovering populism.
Pure populist rage, or at least a sham of it is how we got Trump in the first place it seems.
The blue are the neo-Nazis
Unless and until there is an enormous paradigm shift in American thinking and a sustained period of good governance, America's reputation will remain in the s***ter where it belongs
What do you mean? About the Holocaust or losing WW2?The split between East and West Germany, and how it still continues to affect things to this day, despite reunification being over 30 years ago
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/c/cc3bbf77.jpgThat's part of it, sure, but even aside from that there are still issues, and immense disparity between east and west
The blue are the neo-Nazis.
A deeper problem is that the President's not even suppose to have the power he has now, its because both Congress and the Supreme Court have failed there jobs because they choose greed over duty and shows that it really did not matter WHAT the law said, its that the culture created a population that only cared about there own greed at the expense of everything else and few laws can really stop someone who only cares about greed.
At this point it would require toppling many billionaires like Musk and purging the Government of everyone corrupt before there's a chance of true reform.
the US has an entire political party more than happy to throw nearly every American ally under the bus to save *checks notes* Russia in the middle of them committing war crimes
this, in particular, is going to be hard to forget.
That's part of it, sure, but even aside from that there are still issues, and immense disparity between east and westI guess what I was getting at was that the general mismanagement of the GDR and the bungling of the reunification process is part of what led the AfD to become so big in former East German territories in the first place.
The only path to redemption is to shatter the rural fools and billionaire traitors control over the country..they proved they don't deserve any respect, only contempt from the entire world.
Once they are isolated only then can America rebound.
That's weird, nobody else in this topic has had trouble keeping up with the USA's clearly stated foreign policy that has been in place for literally generations.It certainly would be if I was referring to those people over the average people that only consumes western media.
Would you like to know why?
They paid attention
Remind me why we let idiots get an equal say in politics?Because democracy is good, but education is bad
Speaking as a non-American, I honestly don't see how it does. Even if Trump leaves, the ~75 million people who voted for him are sticking around and there's no guarantee they won't find another Trump and put him in office eight or twelve or sixteen years from now.This.
The damage Trump is doing is going to be long-lasting, and it deserves to be. Unless and until there is an enormous paradigm shift in American thinking and a sustained period of good governance, America's reputation will remain in the shitter where it belongs.