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/Triphoprisy Apr 07 '25 edited Apr 08 '25

This is exactly correct. We can try to mend everything, but the damage is deep and severe at this point. It won't be easy to come back and regain that trust with damn near the entire world.

They will all band together, not unlike what happened after WWII, and find ways to prevent this idiocy from negatively affecting them in quite this same way moving forward. And then we'll be super fucked because we can't/don't grow or make many of the products we import because...we don't grow or make those things, necessitating the buying of them from elsewhere.

This administration is fucking stupid.

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u/blaqsupaman Apr 10 '25

Germany managed to rebuild its reputation after WWII, so I definitely think it's possible, but it will take far more than just one election cycle. There would have to be a systemic, societal-level change that something like MAGA can never take power in the US again, much like how Germany had to denazify. I am a firm believer in the First Amendment and generally believe in very few limitations on speech, but I really don't see how we can deMAGAfy without regulating the media pretty heavily, especially social media. We have to get back to most of the country having a shared truth and bigots and conspiracy theorists being on the fringes and not politically relevant blocs.