Donald Trump’s bruising return to the White House has sent many longtime foreign allies scrambling to get their distance, and according to a new piece from The Atlantic, that distance will last long after Trump is gone.
Trump’s second term as president has been marked by notable and widespread disrespect toward nations once seen as close U.S. allies. Between his attempts to level massive tariffs against nearly every nation in the world and his frequent breaches of diplomatic norms, Trump has created a hostile global environment in which allies no longer feel safe trusting in the stability of the U.S.
In a new piece for The Atlantic on Tuesday, staff writer Vivian Salama argued that this new dynamic, in which the nations of the world are working to establish a safe distance from the U.S., is bound to become the new normal for years to come, even after Trump leaves office and is potentially replaced by a more traditional, dependable administration.
I am talking about imperialism wars and intervention that led to millions of deaths. No other country did that level of evilness
I can think of several…
And what Canada lacks in its own wars of imperialism it makes up for in war crimes lol
There was empires who did worse but those no longer exist and was separated into new countries. In term of current states post world war 2 the usa is the worse.
When the last time Canada initiated a war in the last few decades? The worst things we did is helping indirectly in the usa in their wars of aggression. That’s why we should decouple from the usa
I can think of several that still exist today.
Canada has the benefit of being globally irrelevant, it’s easy to think of your country as one to naturally mind its own business when you’re comfortably nested amongst more economically and militarily effectual nations who get their hands dirty so yours stay clean. Also don’t think for a second that Canada is somehow absolved of its guilt for participating in those wars of aggression or the war crimes they committed while there.
If there was a time for Canada to decouple from the USA on ethical grounds it was decades ago as a matter of principal, not now that the USA has done material economic harm to it.