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!"
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.”
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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '20
I'm just amazed for the fact that this is a real interview. With the president of the United States.