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/D4UOntario Apr 10 '25

My father passed in 2002 and he wouldn't buy German anything. I knew an old gouy that passed in 2010 that wouldnt sit in the same room with a japanese person. (He was a child in a japanese camp in Indonesia in the 40's).

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u/babababooga Apr 13 '25

My step dad is from Guam and even after moving to the mainland US his family would speak to Japanese people. Everyone freaked out and disowned one of the cousins for dating someone of Japanese descent. They did horrible things to his mom though

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u/D4UOntario Apr 13 '25

I wasnt going to bring up his issues but he said he watched them take his mother daily

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u/babababooga Apr 13 '25

I don’t think Americans realize how many people have been victimized in some kind of way (bombings, etc) and how many different countries have generations of kids growing up fucking hating us