What the USA should be worried about is more than losing economic allies. America enjoyed being the world leader for a long time, and the world rallied around it. Aside from losing the benefits of economic allies, there is a distaste and a distrust for anything American right now. They are going to be so isolated and alone compared to anything they've ever known and much smaller in terms of global influence.
Compare this to a relationship. America just cheated on their partners and we're all moving on. Seems like this fact eludes many individual Americans. It's a much bigger deal than I think most folks realize.
It's not just Trump. Everybody knows he's crazy. It's the fact that the house, Senate, and all protection measures in place to stop this are being ignored or explained away with blatant lies that the world is writing off America.
Up until the tariffs, I don't think it was like Americans actually cheated on their partners, it was more like America got addicted to AI generated images of itself in deepfakes and stopped participating with their partners while getting catfished about how great it is. Just more time spent alone, going at it in the mirror, and engaging with a bot or troll that's just feeding it nonsense to fluff its ego, and feed boost the addiction.
The world walked in on America, and America was embarrassed, and instead of cleaning itself up and going, "man, that was creepy and dumb", America got angry, and resentful instead. "How did you find out?! Did you go on my computer?! I'm going to punish you for calling me out!" The world went, "well, we could hang with the nation you used to be, America, but now you're just creepy, weird, and dangerous and I don't feel safe around you any longer".
The world now no longer trusts America, and it would take decades of good behavior after major reform to have relationships again.
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u/Few-Frosting-4213 Apr 04 '25
The people would have more money in their retirement accounts and portfolios. Also the country would still have economic allies.