(April 23, 2025 at 1:39 pm)Alan V Wrote: Perhaps this lack of trust will be a problem as long as Republicans are in control of the government, since they are doing little to control Trump's abuse of tariffs.
They should be thinking about where their party will be post-Trump.
Of course, by then the rest of the world may have set up new alliances which exclude the U.S.
These trust issues will outlast Republican control of our government, because any country entering into a trade deal or security treaty with us will have no idea when said agreements are abrogated by yet another isolationist elected to office.
After WWI, Pres Wilson proposed the League of Nations in order to define and secure international relations in a peaceful setting. The fact that an isolationist Senate refused to ratify it not only damaged the league itself, it also damaged international trust in our word. That trust was never reignited until Hitler forced it in 1939 by attacking those who would soon become our allies.
I'm not so sanguine as you are about this being a passing issue. I only hope it doesn't take a similar cataclysm to make the world regard us once again as loyal, faithful friends.
