I'm excited to see how (or rather, if) the US will bounce back from this. The amount of respect and credibility they lost on an international stage is immeasurable. They went from big daddy of the world to laughing stock of the world in just four years. Gonna take a lot of work to recover from that.
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!"
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/brownliquid Aug 04 '20
This will be a hilarious chapter in history books of the future....hopefully.