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That Donald Trump, despite his rhetoric, failed to "America Great Again", unfortunately did not end with his term.
Paradoxically, under Trump, the United States actually became "smaller." It became a United States that opted out of collaborations if they did not directly benefit their own short-term purposes. During Trump you left the Paris Agreement, terminated the nuclear agreement with Iran and - sometimes rightly - criticized a large number of international organizations, but all the time on your own without talking to allies and always happy to attack allies in the process. In Large questions as weel as in small ones. Trump even threatened, in an executive order, people that cooperated with the International Criminal Court (ICC) that they would have their assets in the United States frozen. And so on. The list goes on.
Donald Trump was also only primarily involved in international issues that directly affected the US and in many situations his international involvement was directly correlated to his personal exposure ,such as his attack on terrorism and dealings with North Korea. That along with the fact that he alienated (and in some cases "sold out") former allies led to a weakening of the US global position and as a consequence, the advancement of other major powers.
Trump is no longer president, but through his allegations of vote-rigging and his campaign to undermine democratic institutions, he has also weakened the US presidency, and security policy failures continue to be reflected in a geopolitical trend of a relative weakening of the United States.
Is the crisis in Ukraine a consequence, (or from Russia's perspective a possibility) of the international weakening of US influence? This also applies to the increasingly serious situation for Taiwan (and it would not surprise me if a Chinese attack is less than a year or two away.)
Paradoxically, under Trump, the United States actually became "smaller." It became a United States that opted out of collaborations if they did not directly benefit their own short-term purposes. During Trump you left the Paris Agreement, terminated the nuclear agreement with Iran and - sometimes rightly - criticized a large number of international organizations, but all the time on your own without talking to allies and always happy to attack allies in the process. In Large questions as weel as in small ones. Trump even threatened, in an executive order, people that cooperated with the International Criminal Court (ICC) that they would have their assets in the United States frozen. And so on. The list goes on.
Donald Trump was also only primarily involved in international issues that directly affected the US and in many situations his international involvement was directly correlated to his personal exposure ,such as his attack on terrorism and dealings with North Korea. That along with the fact that he alienated (and in some cases "sold out") former allies led to a weakening of the US global position and as a consequence, the advancement of other major powers.
Trump is no longer president, but through his allegations of vote-rigging and his campaign to undermine democratic institutions, he has also weakened the US presidency, and security policy failures continue to be reflected in a geopolitical trend of a relative weakening of the United States.
Is the crisis in Ukraine a consequence, (or from Russia's perspective a possibility) of the international weakening of US influence? This also applies to the increasingly serious situation for Taiwan (and it would not surprise me if a Chinese attack is less than a year or two away.)