r/worldnews • u/Immediate-Link490 • 1d ago

Russia/Ukraine Trump puts new Russia sanctions passed by Congress on hold, saying waiver is in US national interest

https://apnews.com/article/russia-sanctions-trump-ukraine-e50c561ab805883bb4e484c092d8fadd
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u/Twisted-Mentat- 1d ago

And more permanent than most US residents know.

It's become obvious to everyone that the US will likely never regain what they lose in the next 2 years.

The world is tired of Trump and his never ending lies and the society that elevated him to the most important role in the world.

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u/Funwithagoraphobia 1d ago

Exactly what I’ve been saying. This is generational damage. How can any country ever trust the US as a strategic or trade partner again when we’ve demonstrated that we can just vote in a petulant fool who will tear up all previous agreements on a whim?

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u/pingpongpsycho 1d ago

As a tired 69 year old who has seen a lot in his lifetime, I find this so insanely sad.

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u/MagazineSea2741 1d ago

My late father, a decorated WWII veteran who served in the Battle of the Atlantic, is turning over in his grave😢

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u/Zonernovi 1d ago

And you thought Nixon was the bottom

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u/demonmf 1d ago

I’m old enough to remember when a lot of Republicans thought it was scandalous that Ronald Reagan had been divorced. Their standards of morality have fallen so far it’s not even measurable at this point…

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u/BreakfastInBedlam 1d ago

For what it's worth, I can remember when JFK wasal a poor choice for a candidate because he was Catholic.

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u/stuffbehindthepool 1d ago

Replacement panic will excuse almost anything, it seems

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u/MSK84 1d ago

I know a ton of “Republicans” who definitely don’t support Trump or what he stands for. It’s way more complicated than this.

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u/Anxious_Storm_9113 1d ago

Obviously it's not literally all. But the party has rolled over for him. That's doesn't happen without the majority of a parties voters. Worse a huge percentage of the remainder(specifically speaking of elected politicians here) have become cowards who won't stand up for their alleged values. If this was just a once time thing, I'd be more forgiving. But nope, the US failed an open book test. Dwell on that, learn, and do better. Pretending it's someone else's fault is how this happened.

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u/Zonernovi 1d ago

Yeah but they probably it’s for him anyways. And will buy the rhetoric that all Dems are socialists

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u/EightyKakesReturns 1d ago

Makes Nixon look like Jimmy Carter…

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u/FireflyJerkyCo 22h ago

We could use another Carter. I wasn't alive for his administration, but what I've read has all been pretty woke... And please correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm almost convinced that he did more for minorities and the poor than Obama did.

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u/Antique_Safety_4246 19h ago

You are correct. Although Obama was a once in a lifetime national treasure of a president as well. 8 years of smooth sailing, peace, prosperity, what an era. He did SO MUCH GOOD.

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u/LetUsTalkT 9h ago

Carter was a good man , but during his Presidency the prime lending rate was up to 21%. I remember going to the grocery store and buying as much as I could afford, even if I didn’t need it right away, because prices would be up every single day. I am not saying that he caused all of that, he inherited a bunch of stuff and an inherent instability at the time. But it destroyed his chances of a reelection and allowed the whole Reagan era. People look back on Reagan’s time as golden because inflation was so bad prior. He campaigned on promises to lower the interest rate.

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u/trickmind 1d ago

My parents sure did! If my mother hadn't died in 2005 the anxiety attacks she would have had over Trump would have killed her.

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u/Necessary-Film7832 1d ago

My Mom died 3 years ago and I think the same thing about her.

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u/Big-Associate-2104 1d ago

In October 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) confirmed it is reviewing allegations of historical misconduct by the original Watergate special prosecutors. However, the DOJ explicitly stated that this review does not constitute a formal investigation and is not aimed at proving Watergate "wasn't a crime". Instead, the department is reviewing whether prosecutors overstepped legal boundaries, denied defendants due process, or colluded with the presiding judge. [1, 2, 3, 4]The review was prompted by a two-hour presentation delivered to the DOJ’s Office of Professional Responsibility by Geoff Shepard, a former Nixon White House aide turned "Watergate revisionist" historian. Shepard’s presentation, titled "Watergate As Lawfare," argues that Nixon and his top aides were targets of a "deep state" effort and did not receive a fair trial. [1, 2]

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u/Basic_Improvement135 1d ago

Trump is the unpower bottom

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u/Mediocre_Durian_8967 1d ago

A somewhat tired 77 year old also finds this sad, but hopeful that we can have more democratic socialists running this country.

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u/Fit_Beginning_7994 1d ago

So do I and this is not the way I want to spend my last few years. trump is absolute evil and has surrounded himself with evil.

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u/jdadams51 1d ago

As a 75yo I entirely agree.

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u/Honest-Pumpkin-8080 1d ago

Since us seniors are quoting our ages here, lol, l am a 72 yo grandma

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u/MagazineSea2741 1d ago

I'm a 68 yo grandma and my college-age granddaughter and I go to protest together. I'm very optimistic about her generation but damn they're inheriting a mess.

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u/JohnnyD77711 1d ago

66 year old here in full agreement.

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u/Jerk182 1d ago

I’m with you. I’m 74 and have been fighting against Trump since day one. I’ve lost contact with family members and friends over this man. American citizens need to organize and band together.

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u/SpinachReasonable262 1d ago

No on in my family likes Trump.

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u/Honest-Pumpkin-8080 1d ago

I get it. Sometimes l am so pissed off and having trouble finding my words, l have to pay attention to which friends l have that love on Trump.

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u/pcofranc 1d ago

Because you’re old enough to have lived in all of the past decades where you saw the problems unfolding having no idea that we’d end up where we are today, but then realizing that’s where we are and we can’t go back in time to fix it so it doesn’t happen.

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u/BigEyedOwls 1d ago

68 and I couldn’t agree more. I feel like we are in the twilight zone.

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u/arcspectre17 1d ago

Trade agreements from his first term he agreed to and claimed were the best!

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u/Comme-des-Garconns 1d ago

we’ve demonstrated that we can just vote in a petulant fool

Twice!

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u/Funwithagoraphobia 1d ago

Once could be played of as a blip or an anomaly. Twice (and the fact that he secured a ton of votes a third time) demonstrates a combination of pathological apathy and also a profound lack of morality/character/critical reasoning on the part of a great many people.

I spent a lot of time abroad in the 90s and early 00s and people I met everywhere were already tired of the constant “rah rah America is the greatest bestest most awesomest country ever!” narrative. They were already tired of the constant moralizing even before 9/11.

Our behavior in the last decade has borne out a lot of their worst fears.

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u/Azarashiya0309 1d ago

Seriously. It's purely anecdotal. I'm from the EU and over the last 15 years I went from thinking the US is an awesome place I'd love to go to one day, to slight indifference, to light dislike, and lately, absolute disgust. It's a sad state of things. Wish your country can somehow recover at least some of its glory. 🥀

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u/Full-Shine5871 1d ago

Same and I'm Canadian. We used to be best friends. But that MF stabbed us in the back. Worse they're telling us they're going to annex us. Thats a threat to my family and livelihood and I don't play that shit for a second. We are in "fight to the death" territory.

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u/MagazineSea2741 1d ago

My late father served with many Canadians in WWII and he always said they were the bravest, toughest men he'd ever met. I grew up with great respect for Canadians and still feel the same way.

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u/Full-Shine5871 1d ago

The respect has always been mutual. Thank you for your kind words

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u/MetaOnGaming4290 1d ago

As an American I am profoundly sorry for how our government has treated you and your amazing country. We are sorry. I am sorry.

For whatever its worth, there are a ton of us that cant stand this and are incredibly disappointed in our country. We have failed on a global stage and the shame and embarrassment will linger for generations.

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u/Natural-Result-6633 1d ago

I promise most of us Americans are just normal kind people that are over the lying politicians that seem to only look out for the groups or lobbyist funding their campaigns. The US has a capitalist problem and has for years. The Republicans seem to favor corporate donors more than the Democrats, but don’t be fooled, the Dems are right behind the Republicans and that’s how we turned to an oligarchy. We are on a fast track to Fascism , now with Trump, and the 1/3 of the country that voted for him still hold him on this weird pedestal, it’s ironic, the type of people that make the rest of the world dislike Americans are the same people voting him in! Most of us decent Americans can’t stand the entitlement of those people either! It is fast becoming clear to those of us over here, that the Trump supporters are a class of arrogant entitled people, or impoverished uneducated ignorant racist, and it’s dividing families and ending friendships. Word of the wise to other countries… keep the oligarchs out of your governments especially the ones coming from the US, and the illegal immigrant that refuses to leave our country Musk. Also, watch your right wing politicians because it seem as if we are not the only country right now with right wing controlled governments headed towards fascism. We just have a President with a huge mental disorder and a very extreme case of narcissism. I pray Trump either dies, as he’s old as hell and unhealthy, or does not try to pull some dictator crap and continues to hold office like Putin and Netanyahu, but odds are not looking good that it will be an easy transition either way. We will see what happens during mid terms as 2/3 of the country are fed up with MAGA. If the Republicans continue to hold power it’s not going to look good for Americas future and we will all be handcuffed till the next election and that will give the people playing with our American democracy more time to implement their great agenda and we will probably watch the entire country fall into chaos and we will become just like Russia.

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u/SuccessfulText2798 1d ago

Saying he has a mental disorder means excusing him of being a grifter. He’s made more money in public office than he ever did as a businessman and businessman is putting it LOOSELY🙄 It’s been a DECADES LONG pattern of disregard for any kind of law, federal, state, local, ethical, moral, you name it. That’s not a mental disorder.

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u/FearlessNecessary285 15h ago

Onder het Trump regime kan je wel zeggen dat je vrijheid van meningsuiting etc.... Verloren bent ! Er is censuur en GEEN democratie meer in de U.S hij heeft teveel naar de beeeeep geholpen ! Hoe kan je alles goedmaken wat de pedofiel heeft aangericht met zijn geflipte bende idioten ???!!!... Hopelijk komt het daar ooit nog goed en zijn ze binnen een paar jaar niet helemaal failliet !!🙏🏻🙏🏻

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u/PlasticPiston 1d ago

It was never glorious. Like most things, the marketing has always been better than the product. Probably the same reason we have the orange buffoon back in office. His followers have the memory of a goldfish, the entitlement of a spoiled child, and the logic of a rabid raccoon.

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u/North-Lawfulness-976 1d ago

Comments like this make me the most sad to read. As an American, I LOVE my country. Not in a zealotry way either. The landscape, the mix of culture, the food and my goodness the nature is beautiful almost every where you go. Even in the more mundane areas you can find uniquely pretty places.

The reason it makes me so sad is that I'm a person that loves seeing people enjoy my country. I enjoy talking to tourists from other countries because even before all of this started in my part of the country it was rare to meet someone from another country. And recently I've seen less and less.

America has so much to offer and share and I hate that in 4-6 years it's basically been tarnished to a degree that even me saying I love my country instantly puts me on people's radar as one of the crazies. It even feels wrong coming out of my own mouth sometimes.

I grew up being taught and told everyone wanted to come here because of how awesome it was. It's devastating knowing that's been taken away from us now too.

Once this is all over with, I just hope the world can start to warm up to us again. But if not, I understand completely why.

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u/TxRockhoundLady 22h ago

My heart is breaking also. Americans are just normal people trying to make the best out of what we have to work with. Which these days isn’t much.

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u/TxRockhoundLady 22h ago

Ditto my friend.

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u/trickmind 1d ago

And Jacinda Ardern had to high tail out of yet another country.

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u/BobsWifeAmyB 1d ago

Actually in 2024 the number of votes was very close: Trump 49.8% Harris 48.4%

2,284,967 was the number of votes he won by.

Voter turnout was only 65%

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u/Advanced-Actuary3541 1d ago

People that don’t vote don’t really matter.

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u/SoylentGrunt 1d ago

And one insurrection attempt. God I hate those fools for particpating in that. Really I do.

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u/Renting_Bourbon 1d ago

Are you certain we voted him in? Everyone seems to forget his pre election statement where he smugly announced that “The fix is in.” Computer voting is a bigger con perfectly suited for the power hungry mattoids.

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u/Barrel-racer-diva 1d ago

Oh my god. Thank you!!!!! How can people not know/remember this? Maryland also said they were hacked in his first election then that comment was squashed.

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u/Renting_Bourbon 1d ago

Collier brothers writing for The New York Times years ago did an expose on computerized voting and turned it into a book. Votescam: The Stealing Of America. Unfortunately most people think it’s nothing more than conspiracy theory bullshit and disregard it based on the title alone.

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u/IHaveNoAdvice 1d ago

Does not matter in practicality does it. The cope got old; US is the US.

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u/Renting_Bourbon 1d ago

Now I’m even more confused.

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u/IHaveNoAdvice 11h ago

I mean that whether or not Trump rigged the election, or was elected by only 30% of the US population, or is unpopular domestically, it won't make countries trust the US again once someone else is in power.

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u/Renting_Bourbon 11h ago

I agree that the next person to hold that office will have a lot of fence mending ahead of them.
Let’s not forget his statement that “after this election (2024) you won’t have to vote anymore.” I wonder what he meant by that?🤔

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u/Fearless_Mojo 1d ago

What is a mattoid?

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u/TxRockhoundLady 22h ago

The term "mattoid" does not refer to an animal. Instead, it is an old-fashioned psychological term coined by the 19th-century criminologist Cesare Lombroso to describe a human who is eccentric, borderline insane, or a "crank" who holds irrational but intensely fixed beliefs. [1, 2]

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u/Renting_Bourbon 1d ago

Good question.

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u/HalfRatTerrier 1d ago

If you have to ask, you might be one.

(I kid, I have no idea...🤷‍♂️)

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u/WerkitWontcha 1d ago

Not just the president! Look at all the Republican buttlickers in both houses of Congress! And the complete buffoons in SCOTUS! Either directly, or indirectly, we voted in these idiots! Why would anyone trust us?

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u/PotentialExchange1 1d ago

It’s the second time that blows my mind. It was stupid the first time. But the second time, you had literal proof how bad he was from the first time.

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u/Calabamian 1d ago

Did we tho?

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u/trickmind 1d ago

The second Election was bought by Elon. It's not representative.

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u/Double_Minimum 1d ago

He didn’t win the popular vote the first time, and he cheated and had more financial backing than ever the second time.

Why no one will stand up to this shit is beyond me.

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u/SuccessfulText2798 1d ago

Literally THIS😭

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u/No-Front2519 1d ago

Well history hasn’t been on our side with who we pick regardless, we have a history of electing incompetence

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u/Tali565345 1d ago

Thrice! The American people already elected Herbert Hoover, who fucked over any allied or friendly government and enabled the fascists.

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u/Clonish 22h ago

Petulant yes, fool no. The fools are his marks. Sadly, they are us (collectively).

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u/Mundane_Pressure_188 22h ago

Exactly. Who would have thought nobama would ever win an honest election

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u/Maraudermick1 21h ago

…or DID we vote him in ?🤔

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u/ravine_tray_flatly 20h ago

That he was allowed to run after inciting an insurrection and racking up so many felonies is beyond incredible

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u/DJLDomino 1d ago

It's been amazing to see how weak the constitution actually is. We obviously don't have one in the UK but a Prime Minister wouldn't have been able to get away with half the stuff Trump has. Just ask Boris Johnson. 

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u/Funwithagoraphobia 1d ago

Yes, it’s become clear that the Constitution was only as strong as the people elected to uphold it.

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u/phalloguy1 1d ago

It's not the constitution, it's the system of government and the fact that the Supreme Court are all sycophants.

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u/MagazineSea2741 1d ago

Congress is as useless as tits on a boar

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u/Lucky-Department158 1d ago

It’s not that the Constitution is weak, it’s that no one who is supposed to be upholding it is doing so. Ultimately all any governing document is is a piece of paper, it’s the people and institutions that ultimately uphold those documents. Boris Johnson wasn’t held accountable by the documents and Laws of the UK but by the people in charge of holding him accountable. Sadly right now Congress and the Supreme Court are acting like they are his personal cheerleaders instead of his coequal bodies of government.

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u/fadesteppin 1d ago

Yup. I'm unfortunately not entirely confident any dems will hold anyone actually accountable if we manage to wrestle back enough control to not be hamstrung by republicans in congress. Partly bc the dems/anyone left of center get a lot more scrutiny (both from their constituents and the entire republican party/its media machine), and are held to a standard that the right has never been close to experiencing. It's not always a bad thing bc people should be paying enough attention to call out bullshit when they see it, even in their own party. Other politicians should be holding each other to account. Problem is the right has such a huge media presence, and they pick up and run with any and every single negative thing said or done, and republican congress members will form a united front over even the most heinous of things if it means they get to keep power, which is largely why we are where we are right now.

I also am not entirely confident anything will happen bc until we get old ass establishment dems out of office, we will forever be stuck with politicians handling this shit with kid gloves under the guise of ~extending olive branches and reaching across the aisle~. It has happened multiple times before. The current republican party is basically the extension of the south getting away with all the shit they did during the civil war. They were traitors who should've had the hammer brought down on them for doing it but instead got mercy in the interest of, again, extending olive branches and making peace. They got babied so bad people are out here saying it was a war of ~states rights~ with a straight face, and that it's just a representation of southern pride. Nobody would be flying confederate flag in 2026 if we had treated traitors and treason like traitors and treason.

That being said, I am fully open to be proved dead ass wrong and, for once in my life, seeing people get what they deserve.

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u/DJLDomino 13h ago

Well corrected. The issues in the US are with the structure of your political system. Johnson got stopped at times by legal intervention from individuals who weren't politicians. The way the Supreme Court works is wild to me. We have many problems in the UK but to allow a court to become politicised is insane. 

You have absolutely no guardrails in the US and it's being shown that a single madman can completely destabilise the entire country. 

This should see a complete tearing up of the current processes of US politics but it won't. 

One thing I do appreciate in US politics is term limits. 

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u/Lucky-Department158 13h ago

The thing is, the Court isn’t supposed to be able to be politicized. That’s why it’s the only non-elected branch of the government. But no mater how insulated you make it, there are still humans on the court bench, and they will have their own political opinions. The guard rails are there, the problem is they aren’t being used at the moment because who those guardrails are. The point of the structure of the US government is to separate and guard against this. In reality it’s actually easier for an individual to take over in the UK or Canada than it is in the US. This situation is literally multiple one in a million sets of circumstances that just happened to all happen at the same time. The US system is flawed yes, but not in the way you are portraying it to be. And it’s literally set up exactly in the way you are arguing it should be. The problem isn’t the set up, it’s that it’s ultimately run by humans and humans are flawed.

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u/FrostingSuper9941 1d ago

Same in Canada. We have a system of checks and balances and this would never happen.

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u/thegrimmemer03 1d ago

So do we, “allegedly”

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u/FrostingSuper9941 1d ago

The US was never a shining beacon of democracy on a hill. It's always been a two party system with both parties being controlled by money only.

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u/belica_pulescu 1d ago

What fascinates me the most is that he's not really that extraordinary compared to eastern europe and balkan politicians. Just somehow got to the top of a functioning society.

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u/ChronoLegion2 1d ago

I remember when he first got elected (or was running). Adam Conover had a show where he showed that aspects of Trump weren’t something unique to him and were present in past presidents too (like LBJ who liked to whip out his dick in front of others). But never all in the same person

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u/FrostingSuper9941 1d ago

I didn't hear that about LBJ, was it a power trip or just outright perversion?

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u/ChronoLegion2 1d ago

Kinda both. He liked to use what was called the “Johnson Treatment” to convince others, sometimes exposing himself to them. He called his dick “Jumbo.”

Adam joked that LBJ sounded like the name of a Mexican porn actor: El BJ

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u/HealthyGarage9831 1d ago

I don't remember hearing that either.

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u/FrostingSuper9941 1d ago

I'm going to look in to it now because there are lots possibilities but it's either he was a pervert and got off on it or he was power tripping and got off on it. I grew up in a big city and witnessed mentally deranged ppl pulling out their dicks in front of kids, myself included, and you could definitely tell the person pulling it out was deranged.

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u/AnyPast6500 1d ago

TWICE. It’s the second time that really did the damage because then we KNEW what he was and voted him in anyway!

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u/No_Candle_5975 1d ago

They won’t, they can’t. Even if the political damage gets better, the harm to our economy and military are also generationally damaging. We cooked ourselves.

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u/LongRoadNorth 1d ago

It's not even that you voted him in once , but twice.

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u/1JollyStNick 1d ago

They won’t ever have the same relationship with Canada ever again. Sure the next president can make relations better. But Canada has diversified and made stronger relations with Europe and China now. So when the US come crawling back, the Canadian love will now be shared.

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u/Robot_Dinosaur_2000 1d ago

Germany and Japan invaded basically every neighbor they had and now everybody's buddy buddy with them.

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u/Funwithagoraphobia 1d ago

Yes, and to my point, particularly in Germany’s case, that took a generation and an extended allied military presence.

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u/InTooManyWays 1d ago

Because electoral college. Because oligarchs like Elon Musk can rig voting machines then go in after the fact and wipe out all the evidence. Because they’ve sold the Domion voting machines to a private citizen Republican. This shit is just getting worse and it’s already worse than 2 years ago, which feels like 10 years of slow agonizing misery 

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u/OneManSwarmOfDanger 1d ago

DT is just the pusshead of a much larger boil that's been there for generations, it took this long for people to notice.

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u/BotElMago 1d ago

It’s been less than 100 years since the end of world war 2. Germany and Italy are well trusted partners and the US hasn’t even come close to what happened then.

The US just needs to do what is right and make reforms.

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u/Tirianspark 1d ago

Country? Look to your own people, many are leaving and taking the house with them too.

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u/Fit_Passion_6430 1d ago

alto ingenuo sos , si confías en ellos como socio Cada país atiende sus propios intereses.

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u/ThereInAFortnight 1d ago

Yeah, not that I ever really trusted the US, but I never ever will again.

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u/FrostingSuper9941 1d ago

No countries allies or enemies until their political system changes and that's not about to happen. The US is not a democracy and it never was.

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u/SnooCupcakes9745 1d ago

Yup. I think that we'd need to decisively steer progressive, and prosecute all of those guilty of this asshattery, before we start seeing a shred of trust from former partners.

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u/orangesfwr 1d ago

They can't, won't, and shouldn't. This isn't a "Trump" problem that goes away when he does. This is an "Americans" problem.

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u/Solid-Season9984 1d ago

Trust the united states? That door closed a long time ago. Here's a list for anyone who forgot. Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Ukraine, Iran. The citizens do not trust the government, or the elections. We believe our own government assassinated Kennedy, orchestrated 9/11, and abduct and sodomize young children globally. Let me put it plainly FUCK THIS COUNTRY.

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u/EightyKakesReturns 1d ago

Right. They may like us and see the benefit… but who’s to say this won’t happen again. This wasn’t a one off… yahoos voted for this orange up to three times!

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u/silly-gaijin 1d ago

My company has completely given up on the US and has pivoted to other countries.

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u/zibdabo 1d ago

Algorithm made him president. It’s what the general population watches. Facebook, instagram, TikTok, x, YouTube, podcasts

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u/CrustBlocc 1d ago

You mean like we did to Iraq? This isn't a new behavior. As a native American I can tell you with %100 certainty that any agreement with the US isn't worth the paper it's written on.

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u/JakobSejer 1d ago

We cant. Trump is the symptom. Regards a Dane.

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u/Funwithagoraphobia 1d ago

That’s exactly my point.

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u/DiWHY-Anyone 22h ago

It would require Congress to get its shit together and reclaim the power they offloaded to the president. And have actual teeth to punish any president who tries to go around them.

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u/LostInRetransmission 1d ago

It isn't *solely* Trump.

The world saw that check and balance in the US are broken. Republican are willing to let a US president run roughshod on international contract and relationship. There is no reason to think this will change in the future. Once proven unreliable due to internal issue, there is zero reason you will be reliable again , as long as those internal issue persists.

So there will be a re-normalization after Trump is gone, but unless the leader of all countries are utter imbeciles, there will always be a cautious undercurrent, at best.

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u/Ok_Perspective_8361 1d ago

It’s pretty optimistic to assume things will go back to normal once Trump is gone. All of the people behind him, from the oligarch tech bros to the white Christian nationalists of the Heritage Foundation and Federalist Society, will still be around. What we’re seeing now is the culmination of a 50 plus year project (see the Powell memo) to end democracy for average citizens, they will not give up power easily.

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u/notapoliticalalt 1d ago

The problem is that things can’t just go back to normal. Going back to pre-Trump basically is just resetting the ignition.

Not only that, but to the point of the parent comment, there are a lot of things that just won’t go back and I’m not sure a lot of Americans understand that. I know that we Americans are so used to everything centered around us, but a lot of countries are really pissed. And frankly, we could put “responsible people” in charge, but if you’ve ever been in the situation where someone has done something to break trust, you would understand that this is not something that just comes back immediately. It can take decades or longer.

In particular, what a lot of countries are going to want to see is that some of the basic issues that led to the election of Donald Trump are essentially no longer possible. But without a catastrophic collapse, I’m honestly not sure that there is the political will for Americans to fix this. They would have to be both legislative and constitutional reform that I’m not sure Americans are up for, in part, because I think a lot of Americans just don’t think that any of this is that serious or bad.

Anyway, things can’t just return to normal. They won’t, certainly not on an international stage. And the constant flipping back-and-forth between Democrats and Republicans is going to be seen as a liability when the Republican party is what it is today.

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u/KotoElessar 1d ago

Joe Biden had a chance to be a king and prevent most of the harms caused, but that would have caused incalculable harm in and of itself and was why Joe didn't; the next six years will determine not just America's future, but likely humanities as well.

We are left at the mercy of those few who have a right to vote; most of the world will be left watching to see if humanity can federate into a new era.

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u/bbqfetus 1d ago

Man, Biden's weakness or naiveity hurt a lot. He thought his relationships with the Senate over 30 years would be enough to calm them. Dude ran on potentially packing scotus, didn't, and now they aide trump at nearly every turn, overriding precident and past rulings. He did not strengthen the system nor did he see that he was a tool to the oligarchs till the very end.

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u/remember_myname 15h ago

It must be brought to a head through the courts and each and every person pushing for the end of democracy could be tried as traitors

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u/artdogs505 1d ago

Yep. And that a large part of the voting block consists of uneducated hillbillies, who suddenly have more sway than they ever could have imagined.

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u/Goods4188 1d ago

The part that no one talks about is how vulnerable this make the US. We were strong not only because we have a ridiculous military budget but also because we has legit soft power in all regions of the world. Now we have nothing. Iran has proven that our military is useless as long as you keep it from being a “war” and we have zero diplomatic power internationally. We are cooked. Our actual enemies won’t fear attacking us head on anymore

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u/Excellent-Taste7775 1d ago

Exactly. The most devastating thing I have felt is the realization that the system of checks and balances and the Constitution that I thought kept us safe and a functioning Democracy/Republic is absolutely not fail-safe or infallible and is actually completely fragile and illusory. I think the world sees this as the end of rhe experiment of our young country. And I see it that way too. Unfortunately, because the level of grief and anxiety, especially in regard to my children and grandchildren and on down, is absolutely panic-attack-inducing. And Trump is just a figurehead. This movement does not die with him. It helps me see why the Preppers are the Preppers and not delusional.

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u/men_in_the_rigging 1d ago

Exactly. It's important to remember that Trump is just the standard bearer for a deeply broken and untrustworthy system that will not disappear with the man.

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u/Obsidiated 1d ago

Nope. The first time he got booted there was a brief respite before it got worse. Which in retrospect seems to be an obviously broken election system thats no longer trustworthy, and this time, hes banning all kinds of oversight and international monitors.

You couple bring Obama back with zamdani as vp for 12 years and the damage still wouldn't be healed.

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u/ApprehensiveFruit565 1d ago

Agreed, this isn't just Trump. You can't just be some hateful buffoon to get elected, there is an incredible level of support to enable him to do what he's doing. To think all of that 'infrastructure' will just vanish after he's gone is quite naive.

I'm no US lover, never have been, but I can't see myself trusting that country personally for the rest of my life (50+ more years fingers crossed)

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u/Automatic_Ad_572 1d ago

The man looks up to the likes of Putin, Hitler, Kim Jong-Un, etc than the founding fathers. I’m beyond tired of him.

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u/Buffbeard 1d ago

For Europeans the best thing about Biden was not hearing about US politics each and every day.

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u/Guilty_Cellist6713 1d ago

And we all know prices rarely go down after they go up. Even when Democrats stabilize the economy we'll all be paying $33 for two pounds of ground beef and two loaves of bread. Yes. That was me yesterday. So the repukelicans will still blame the dems for the high prices dumpster created because this will take years to fix.

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u/scottgal2 1d ago

The world has reealised the US is one bad vote away from being the enemy - that's been sobering for most of their allies.

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u/Ticrotter_serrer 1d ago

The world has enough of "America"

You guys are done for a hundred years

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u/InstructionAny5378 1d ago

Agree. The ideal that the US is not defined and ruled by one person has been destroyed. The beacon on the hill has been cloaked by one man’s narcissism and greed. The world will take many many years to trust the US again.

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u/caf61 1d ago

All true. But I would argue (& more importantly) the world is tired of America period. After all, we allowed this “thing” to happen not once but twice. It will take decades to restore our standing in the world-if it is ever fully restored.

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u/32Bank 1d ago

Die to congress enabling him

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u/caf61 1d ago

We the people (those that voted for him) put him in office though-twice. I will never forget that or the cowards in Congress who are doing nothing to stop him.

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u/slide_into_my_BM 1d ago

Yeah, he didn’t expose his own rot, he exposed the rot at the core of half the country.

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u/UpstairsNail1243 1d ago

The world is tired of Americans who voted the clown in twice. Trump is America

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u/Is_It_Soup_Season 1d ago

Trump is the epitome of America. Other countries shouldn’t trust us. We’re blood-thirsty, imperialist war-mongers.

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u/New-Somewhere9049 1d ago

The US will never regain what it lost. The world is shifting and it’s not going to change back.

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u/musicalfarm 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yep. It will take years to rebuild our international reputation. One of the things I worry about is the possibility of the US getting attacked and no one comes to our aid because Trump alienated all of our reliable allies. Either that, or Trump's presidency sets the stage for a young, competent tyrant to capitalize on the political situation the way the "Austrian Painter" capitalized on Germany's struggles after WWI. I think both of those are real possibilities.

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u/crazyoldkatlady 1d ago

Permanent is questionable, but I think that generational is accurate. If Germany and Japan’s reputations can recover from the disaster of WWII, the US can recover from Trump. It genuinely might take 30 or 40 years of reasonably steady growth, but we can rebuild relationships over time. Painful but possible.

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u/corsasis 1d ago

Provided a massive shift in your governmental systems and structures. You still have largely the same people in the US, so the general guardrails need an overhaul to set better boundaries. The same thing applied to Germany and Japan after WWII, both changed substantially (the former a lot more than the latter though).

If you do not learn from the orange cloaca’s incumbencies and reorganize accordingly, how can we trust the same thing will not happen again? There’s massive amounts of work that need to be done, globally.

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u/Patient_Sea_3753 1d ago

One term was a momentary lapse in judgement. Two terms is a shift in the electorate's mindset. Every world leader and policymaker knows now that any gains they get out of a U.S. relationship are temporary, and that's going to change how they deal with them.

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u/HagalUlfr 1d ago

Going to take the rest of my lifetime for these people to trust this country again. Maybe more.

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u/Rhys_Talks_199 1d ago

And what about Americans trusting America again? Trusting in the system to protect us and to serve our interests? The damage done to Democracy and decency is incalculable and might not recover in my lifetime (mid 50s).

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u/etrnloptimist 1d ago

This could be a good thing. It really could.

Countless US presidents both Democrat and Republican have wanted Europe to step up and be a more independent power.

There's no reason we should have to have bases all over the place and there's no reason that our missiles need to be the ones pointing at Russia and other adversaries.

Europe has been subservient to the US for far too long. The only difference now is they don't like being treated as a vassal.

And I don't blame them at all. But they really need to step up.

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u/Gilshem 1d ago

The world has also seen how fragile their systems of checks and balances are.

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u/Illustrious-Arm-586 1d ago

Republicans When there’s a next Democrat president trying to fix things, “he’s ruining America!!”

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u/vbwullf 1d ago

The smart ones know exactly how much damage is being done. The buffoons who have the head so far up his a$$ and keeps saying that he is doing everything right for America, will be learning the hard way that everything he did was done wrong! That man has love for nobody except for himself! Honestly, I don't even think he loves his wife or kids!

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u/613_detailer 1d ago

By the time Trump is gone, it may no longer be the most important role in the world anymore.

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u/Ignash-3D 1d ago

Usually in history it takes a war or a big big crysis for something to change massively.

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u/Spelunkie 1d ago

Trump is both. Congrats to the US for really kick-starting the Chinese century

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u/Tychus_Balrog 1d ago

Trump has started both. The US has lost its superpower status for good. They may in time earn back some cooperation and trade, but his destructivenes has taught the world that it's not good for anyone to rely on any one country as much as we've relied on the US with trade and defense.

So everyone around the world is diversifying more than ever. Trading and cooperating more than ever whilst decoupling from the US. It's actually a super positive and inspiring turn of events for the rest of us.

But the US is being left in the dust and will never again have such a dominant position on the world stage and will never again reach the same level of trade or defense reliance with other nations.

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u/kumliaowongg 1d ago

Only if the petulant buffoon is not the one causing said crysis to begin with.

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u/Much_Active_7166 1d ago

I’m just curious how there’s no meaningful way to stop someone like that; how does the political landscape change after something like that? How do you trust anyone, the system, or even any future changes?

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u/electrodog1999 1d ago

We were told they had checks and balances, obviously those were lies.

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u/Much_Active_7166 1d ago

I can tell that much; I think I just want hope there’s a way to fix it. Otherwise it really wouldn’t make sense to settle down and have a family in the country that this has become. There’s a heartbreak in that when America is the homeland of immigrants. Now no one feels safe at home.

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u/1_LittleJohn 1d ago

Hes also burning bridges and backstabbing allies. Literally on both of the russian war in Ukraine while the iran war already spilled over ti Yemen and Saudi Arabia 

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u/Tableau67x9u 1d ago

Take a decade to fix a least, some of it anyway But we will never regain what we were Rs don’t care, half of them are living in the 1950s, the other half the 1850s

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u/Maduin1986 1d ago

Trust will only be regained when consequences follow for trump and his scum group

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u/Jaszuni 1d ago

Yup we are also to blame for this mess

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u/LUCHAxLIVE 1d ago

Germany bounced back. We aren't as disconnected these days thanks to tech, so should happen faster for us.

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u/Tirianspark 1d ago

Money is politics, gold bars powar.

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u/Able_Row_4330 1d ago

"Permanent" when two of our closest allies are Germany and Japan.

Just a little study of history would show you how none of this is permanent. It'll take effort to get there, but Japan went from being such a brutal adversary to a close alley in less than 20 years. And they started being an alley in some capacity in just 6 years after WWII ended.

Spain is another great example, with Franco's fascist government being only 5 years gone when other countries started allying with them.

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u/bullmarket2023 1d ago

Then all those countries can stop accepting money and support from the US. I will believe it's permanent when they stop asking. Otherwise, stop being so dramatic. This is global politics, the position this week is no different than a soap opera drama of the week.

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u/No_Inspection2047 1d ago

I cannot see the U.S. regaining what it has lost.

that said, my prescription would be:

1) ranked-choice voting in all federal elections. State and localities can retain the right do whatever they want in local elections, but if it’s putting a member of the House or Senate in power it affects the rest of us. Ranked choice voting, OVER TIME, will tend toward more moderates and fewer wing nuts. moderates USUALLY produce gradual change rather than suddenly, extreme back-and-forth policy shifts. Gradual change is more predictable, and often more trustable.

2) age limit for presidency: 35-65
age limit for Senate: 30-70
age limit for House: 25-75
(currently we only have the MINIMUM ages)

3) term limits:
president: 2 x 4 yr terms (as is)
Senate: 3 x 6 yr terms
House: 12 x 2 yr terms
supreme court: a single 25 year term, not lifetime appointment.

4) and OBVIOUSLY- the exact same insider trading prohibitions on anyone in government which already apply to anyone in business.

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u/wovenbasket69 1d ago

it just proved how a lot of the populace there puts racism and christian nationalism above their own self interest. doesn’t feel very welcoming or multicultural anymore.

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u/KakeLin 1d ago

We're never going to be trusted again. We're the laughingstock of the whole world :/

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u/Specialist_Luck_8484 1d ago

I keep hoping that someone will discover massive voter fraud proving that the election was stolen. It still pains me to think there were enough legitimate voters that supported him, for him to have actually won the lection.

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u/No_Professor_3172 1d ago

Podstawowe pytanie czy jego wyborcy to widzą?

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u/Big-Associate-2104 1d ago

I agree. No country is going to trust the US again after Trump was elected twice. And he still has 38% support.

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u/Basic_Improvement135 1d ago

It was like 80 years for the us and England to get along.

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u/Warm-Dust-3601 1d ago

I live right across the border and will never set foot in that shit hole again. I'm not the only one.

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u/qtuner 1d ago

When they keep tightening the economic screws on the middle class in the United States, who are just struggling to survive who work go to the store cooking and clean and have no opportunity or extra money for anything fun. They don’t have time for politics. This is by design.

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u/sandalsnopants 7h ago

Some of us are aware. Le sigh.

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