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After the US midterm rout of Trumpism, the world struggles to trust America again (apnews.com)
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For Joe Reeve, the midterm afterglow faded fast.

The London startup founder was among the wave around the Trump-weary world awakening to the stunning news that Americans had sharply rejected President Donald Trump’s fist-in-the-eye stewardship of the United States that had started a war with Iran, forged no peace in Ukraine or the Mideast and made gas and food so expensive.

Voters, Reeve saw online, had flipped control of both houses of Congress, handing the power to check the president to his rival Democrats. American democracy, 250 years on, had survived the Trump era.

But a deep and profound distrust of the United States had survived the vote, too. And from national leaders to aspiring American immigrants, no one seemed confident that change was afoot.

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[–] 2 points 22 hours ago (1 child)

I don't think the world trusted America before Trump, they're not stupid.

They hope for the best, but they've all seen what we do at home and abroad. I still wince over how we have betrayed the Kurds (repeatedly, since 1920s).

On the other hand, we have been a bit better than the prior world police heavyweights (UK, Spain)

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  • [–] 4 points 18 hours ago

    On the other hand, we have been a bit better than the prior world police heavyweights (UK, Spain)

    Have you? I'm not gonna say that the UK and Spain didn't do awful things during their imperialist periods some centuries ago; because they did. And they were horrible.

    But let's not pretend you are better. You did have your genocide, in your own country. And you had slavery for a good while. And up until some decades ago, you were an appartheid state (and even if not so openly, you still are thanks to your pigs in uniform).

    You've been involved directly and indirectly in who knows how many wars around the world, and staged coup in all continents; you meddle with every country you can (and are doing it with half the world right now trying to fund fascism worldwide).

    You are not a bit better, you're just doing as bad, just in a different way, adapted to the new times.

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