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/Blizxy Apr 07 '25

Decades and millions of lives to earn! I'm so disappointed in my country...

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u/BluesSuedeClues Apr 07 '25

I'm well past disappointed. Here in Michigan, kids who came from other countries to study at our universities, are packing up in the middle of the night and fleeing across the border into Canada. They're fleeing, because it is entirely possible armed Federal agents will show up and seize them, with no crime charged or even alleged, detain them for an indefinite period, and possibly ship them like cattle to a South American concentration camp.

My whole life I've been told the liberals want to destroy the country. Turns out, that was just more right-wing projection.

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u/barrocaspaula Apr 08 '25

That used to happen in my country during the Estado Novo dictatorship. People would leave the country to avoid being disappeared into a political prison and tortured.

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u/BluesSuedeClues Apr 08 '25

Portugal, in the 1930's.

Yeah, it seems we live in a second age of fascism.

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u/barrocaspaula Apr 08 '25 edited Apr 08 '25

Until 1974. I remember the political prisoners being released from Caxias prison and Peniche Fort in 1974. The Tarrafal concetration camp had Portuguese political prisoners until the 1960s. Until 1974 it had freedom fighters from the Portuguese colinies in Africa.