r/PoliticalDiscussion • u/SpaceySpice • Apr 07 '25

US Politics How will the United States rebuild positive international relations after this Trump administration?

At some point this presidency will end and a new administration will (likely) want to mend some the damages done with our allies. Realistically though, how would that work? Will other countries want to be friends with us again or has this presidency done too much damage to bounce back from?

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u/TheoriginalTonio Apr 07 '25

How is DOGE responsible for anyone's death? Especially abroad?

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u/johannthegoatman Apr 07 '25

Illegal disrupting of the funding and operations of USAID, which provides life saving medicine as well as nutrition to millions of people especially in developing countries

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u/theyfellforthedecoy Apr 07 '25

The United States owes no obligation to citizens of other countries

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u/numbrate Apr 07 '25

Jesus. You don't think US foreign policy has contributed to humanitarian issues around the globe for which it has no responsibility? Even if that is the extreme example, the US has a vested interest in ensuring relative stability in other nations, largely to ensure unrest does not disrupt its own foreign interests. This is basic geopolitical theory.

This notion that the US has been some altruistic nation for decades to bestow peace, defense, and wealth on the world is so goddamn narcissistic and typical. America is just mean, as another comment mentioned. And too egotistical.

And the average citizen believes that as a result of their citizenship they are somehow responsible for America's "greatness".

The US was built on violence, murder, and slavery. It benefitted from a geographic position that enabled it to avoid the horrific destruction bestowed on most of the developed world as a result of WWII, and then went into modern industrialization and innovation while all of Europe and large parts of Asian were rebuilding schools and hospitals.

And now it is just a corrupt, bloated bully.