It’s not a matter of simply waiting out one bad president and then expecting everything to go back to normal.
It’s naive to think that there isn’t an enormous fundamental public sentiment in America of everything that Trump and current day Republicans represent.
The rest of the world no longer trusts America and has been spending that last few years forging new friendships and alliances.
It will take generations to come back from the damage America has done to themselves over that last decade.
And it will never be completely the same. The amount distrust towards everything that is American like tech, products and politics has never been this high.
It finally opened Europe’s eyes to see that it needs to be less dependent on America.
You are a lot more optimistic than I am. Here in Sweden our politicians are still all buddy-bud with the US, seemingly completely unaffected by the repeated threats and tantrums.
As a swede myself, I always thought it very curious how swedes are such USA fanatics. In my hometown the hockey team has an american name like the flying eagles or some bullshit (Växjö, don’t remember the exact name, fled the country a long time ago).
And everyone had to drive the shittiest motorcycle brand there is; harley davidson, for some bizarre reason.
My theory is that sweden doesn’t have a national identity and long for one desperately, french (for example, we have loafs of historical reasons why to buddy with france IMO) is too complicated, the usa culture is like fast food SO easy to ingest.
This sounds plausible to me. It also explains all the incredibly tacky confederate flags you’ll see here and there. I don’t think most people would actually support the confederacy, but rather they see the flag in certain circles they try to copy and thus take on that too.
My unkle, swedish as it gets, living in Skövde and married to a, IIRC, Indian girl (with kids) promoted Maga bullshit like in 2016. I shut him down hard but I mean how brain dead can you be? America first? I mean I just don’t know what to say 😅.
The confederate flag is just as bad or worse 😂, supporting the losers from a war in a country far away 😯🤯
I’m thankful in a strange way that this bloated orange corpse was incapable of stopping himself from insulting and attacking Canada and Canadians so relentlessly and disgustingly that nobody in our country can close their eyes to it.
It’s galvanized us in a way that I’ve not seen in my lifetime
You’d think that here in Sweden we’d feel similarly on account of the threat towards Greenland, and by proxy Denmark. But alas, our politicians are fools, hence why they’re letting Peter Thiel and his named-after-evil-objects company worm its way into both our police force and our military.
Fuck that, sanction them out of existence and balkanize them while they’re weak. Like 30% of the country wants to invade and annex Canada. Are you guys fucking awake??
Unfortunately, those 30% are spread throughout the entire (very large) country, making Balkanization essentially impossible unless they all move to Wyoming first or some shit.
It’s not a matter of simply waiting out one bad president and then expecting everything to go back to normal.
It’s naive to think that there isn’t an enormous fundamental public sentiment in America of everything that Trump and current day Republicans represent.
The rest of the world no longer trusts America and has been spending that last few years forging new friendships and alliances.
It will take generations to come back from the damage America has done to themselves over that last decade.
And it will never be completely the same. The amount distrust towards everything that is American like tech, products and politics has never been this high. It finally opened Europe’s eyes to see that it needs to be less dependent on America.
You won’t come back from what trump did the last two years, ever.
That post WW2 rush just went away, like the magic smoke leaving an expensive processor that was pushed too hard.
IMO you can only aim to be a normal country now.
You are a lot more optimistic than I am. Here in Sweden our politicians are still all buddy-bud with the US, seemingly completely unaffected by the repeated threats and tantrums.
As a swede myself, I always thought it very curious how swedes are such USA fanatics. In my hometown the hockey team has an american name like the flying eagles or some bullshit (Växjö, don’t remember the exact name, fled the country a long time ago).
And everyone had to drive the shittiest motorcycle brand there is; harley davidson, for some bizarre reason.
My theory is that sweden doesn’t have a national identity and long for one desperately, french (for example, we have loafs of historical reasons why to buddy with france IMO) is too complicated, the usa culture is like fast food SO easy to ingest.
🤷🏼♀️
This sounds plausible to me. It also explains all the incredibly tacky confederate flags you’ll see here and there. I don’t think most people would actually support the confederacy, but rather they see the flag in certain circles they try to copy and thus take on that too.
My unkle, swedish as it gets, living in Skövde and married to a, IIRC, Indian girl (with kids) promoted Maga bullshit like in 2016. I shut him down hard but I mean how brain dead can you be? America first? I mean I just don’t know what to say 😅.
The confederate flag is just as bad or worse 😂, supporting the losers from a war in a country far away 😯🤯
Wild.
I’m thankful in a strange way that this bloated orange corpse was incapable of stopping himself from insulting and attacking Canada and Canadians so relentlessly and disgustingly that nobody in our country can close their eyes to it.
It’s galvanized us in a way that I’ve not seen in my lifetime
You’d think that here in Sweden we’d feel similarly on account of the threat towards Greenland, and by proxy Denmark. But alas, our politicians are fools, hence why they’re letting Peter Thiel and his named-after-evil-objects company worm its way into both our police force and our military.
Fuck that, sanction them out of existence and balkanize them while they’re weak. Like 30% of the country wants to invade and annex Canada. Are you guys fucking awake??
Unfortunately, those 30% are spread throughout the entire (very large) country, making Balkanization essentially impossible unless they all move to Wyoming first or some shit.
Millenia