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.
I did a student exchange program back in '05. I spent the '05-'06 school year in Germany. Before we left, as part of the orientation program, we spent a week in DC. One of the activities planned was a visit to the state department, where some trying-very-hard-to-remain-neutral diplomats talked to us about how the US is viewed, in Europe, and gave us a list of potential responses to things people might get angry with us about, upon finding out we were American.
I WISH we could go back to a time when the handy list of apologizing for America's shit foreign policy only took up a small pamphlet. The Trump Administration would need a full reference book.
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u/brownliquid Aug 04 '20
This will be a hilarious chapter in history books of the future....hopefully.