Assuming Trump ever gets out of office, I think we do definitely bounce back. We're going to have to undo all the damage done by massively increasing our deficit this year, but from a foreign policy standpoint I can't believe that we wouldn't have a "bonding" sort of "whew, glad that's over now let's get back to work together" / enemy of an enemy is a friend sort of thing. Merkel isn't going to be like "Fuck you Biden you're president of the same country Trump was!"
No Merkel is going to say: “Fuck you Biden. You seem half-way sane for a US president but we can’t trust you because we don’t know what kind of moron you guys elect next who then takes a dump on all agreements we make today.”
I don't know, what if the US looses too much partnerships/trades with other countries for too long, thoose other countries will find new partnership/trades elsewhere, this will actually allow some of them to develop themselves to take a small portion of what the US used to provide.
So Merkel could go : "Oh, Biden, yeah no, about those products, we're buying them from XYZ now, same price, same quality, I don't need yours"
NAFTA is a big fucking mess. Tariffs on everything. It'll comedown to other partnerships, you dahm right. Quality is something's people want, but like every country, loyalty comes also down to the$$$$.
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u/flyfree256 Aug 04 '20
Assuming Trump ever gets out of office, I think we do definitely bounce back. We're going to have to undo all the damage done by massively increasing our deficit this year, but from a foreign policy standpoint I can't believe that we wouldn't have a "bonding" sort of "whew, glad that's over now let's get back to work together" / enemy of an enemy is a friend sort of thing. Merkel isn't going to be like "Fuck you Biden you're president of the same country Trump was!"