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by stackghost 4 hours ago
>If Trump gets replaced by some moderate neocon on wave of “good old times” every one of these lobbied politicians will jump back hail comming of the golden age, buy everything american again and delete all this sovereignity out of the sky.

I don't think so. In fact I think you, like the American delegation in the article I linked to, are dramatically underestimating the degree to which a lot of US allies feel betrayed.

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Yeah. This is also a threshold thing. There was a reluctance to accept that the US isn't as big a deal as it once was. The numbers weren't good during Obama's presidency†, but there wasn't much reason to ask "Is this still OK?" a decade ago and plenty of reasons to avoid stirring. Trump provided an impetus to ask the question in a circumstance where the numbers continue to look worse and there's political will to re-assess.

† The US has far too much debt, far too much poverty (despite all those billionaires) and it doesn't look great by comparison to peer nations on lots of fronts such as health access and educational attainment.