Adam Schiff is wrong

[scheming daemons]

"America may not have a friend left after this presidency. " - Adam Schiff



When we get rid of Trump.... we will find an ENORMOUS amount of goodwill among other countries who will want to be our friend again.


Believe that.

[Disaffected]

1. Don't count on it,

everyone is well aware that the next Republican president/congress will reappear sooner or later.

[Celerity]

3. this is so true

[Kahuna7]

7. Right. They will always be distrustful that we could be demented enough

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to "elect" another trump.

[magicarpet]

29. The atrocity of bush the dumber,..

Then elected bush to another term.

Okay, okay, we learned our lesson.

Obama for 8 years.

Then along comes the atrocity of trDump.

If the world trusts America to install thoughtful, intelligent, capable, ethical,
incorruptible, and accountable leaders the world would have to be nuts. Without question our immediate behavior and history indicates we would be inclined to do otherwise.

The reluctance of the world to trust the USA is understandable.

[krawhitham]

15. +1

[Newest Reality]

2. I don't believe it.

That would be great and I would be all for it.

There may be some cases of a return to a "friendship" as an attitude depending on the context, but it is going to take a long time, much diplomacy, and a decent and credible President, as well as other factors to establish trust and make strong alliances again. For now, we are going in the opposite direction and even more damage can be done.

Take the statement from Trump about the escaping ISIS prisoners going to Europe. That's friendly? That's sending and wishing them terrorism in their homelands, and that's just one example.

So, maybe the word friend is ambiguous and might even differ from what is implied here and, to me beliefs are an aside.

[RockRaven]

4. There might be a great deal of relief when Trump is gone, but much of the world will

believe that this episode was merely the USA showing it's true stripes. We will still have a national legislature half-filled by people who enabled Trump's worst behavior at every turn. We will still have a judiciary full of life-appointed zealots whose world view is incomprehensible to many. Trump's behavior was so extreme that the polite fictions about US values and such failed to hold together, and in doing so exposed to the world how deep the rot is in our society and how unreliable our government is. There is no putting that back in the bottle.

[DrToast]

5. Wishful thinking

Countries will always wonder if another Trump is just 4 years away.

It will take a very, very long time to undo the damage Trump has done.

[RainCaster]

6. Only if we immediately undo all that the GOP has done in the last 3+ years

That is the only way we can recover from this on the world stage. We must publicly acknowledge that (as a country) we were wrong and we are doing everything possible to right all those wrongs ASAP.

[shanti]

8. It will take at least the first four years

of a Dem presidency, to erase and fix the stink that will be left from Chump. I hope someone is making a list of all of it.

[Wellstone ruled]

10. And that will be dependant

on whom is appointed to various Foreign Agencies. It is all about Trust.

[RainCaster]

18. Begin with a heartfelt apology to every State Dept employee Trump let got

Bring them all back, with an across the board raise. Charge that to the GOP.

[Wellstone ruled]

20. Thought about this a couple years ago.

Had two Childhood Friends who spent their lives working in the State Department Foreign Service Division. Each one would say,it is all about trust,and you never crossed a counter part in the Country you served in.

[hlthe2b]

9. Not for some time. Trust is not so readily reclaimed when there have been NO changes

in our system to ensure at least a minimum of continuity between administrations and to ensure another Trump will not take over again in coming elections with none to minimal restraints and oversight.

[MFGsunny]

11. Once betrayed .......

I've heard it said that trust is much like a mirror.
Once broken, we may be successful in "fixing" it,
but the cracks will still always show.

[lame54]

12. We'll have to work for it

[Mme. Defarge]

13. I would hope that our allies recognize

that our country has been attacked by a malevolent and power hungry foreign adversary and will stand by us as we have stood by them in past global conflagrations.

[emmaverybo]

27. +1000

[FakeNoose]

14. I used to say that too, when Chump first won

But after 3 years of GOP/Chump fuckery - I'm not saying it any more. We have burned our friends and allies in awful ways. We will need to do everything possible earn back to their friendship and trust.

I would propose to the next President to nominate Barack Obama as our Secretary of State. Obama has enough good will and reputation left that he could actually get our friends back, but it will be very hard work.

[emmaverybo]

30. I propose to the American people, if concerned about FP and relations, elect Biden, Obama's VP.

Obama took him on for his FP experience and entrusted him with post-war Iraq, a big deal. Biden has respect and stature on the world stage and an unmatched resume in world affairs.

No time for OTJT in this most crucial area. Other candidates are not even very interested. Our party has not been sufficiently interested.

As Joe showed in his FP speech, issues are interconnected—climate change and FP, for instance. We are interdependent with our allies and we must be prepared for our enemies.

I am sure Biden could get the best crew to work on the many problems we have neglected and relationships we have made a mess of. From Secretary of State to rebuilding the state department, he will draw best and brightest. The candidate who was nearest to Obama and thoroughly schooled and up to date in these perilous times is Biden.

[phylny]

16. I think we'll be okay.

We just came back from Italy, where we visited many cities. Every Italian we spoke to hates Trump but loves Americans. The only person we met who liked Trump was - go figure - a Chinese man who works in the U.S. for a big investment firm that works for the wealthy. He thinks the president is "doing the right thing."

[ecstatic]

17. Not really because another "trump" could happen.

With or without trump, I have doubts about the future of this country.

Our elections are still not secure, the nation is too divided, and half the country is too ignorant.

Democracy requires a well informed populace.

A major party is willing to sell us out for their own personal gain.

Why would any world leader in his/her right mind want to deal with us?

[Hermit-The-Prog]

21. R.I.P. U.S.A. 1776 - 2016

The way I feel right now, 2018 was a "dead cat bounce", like stocks that plummet to nothing, rebound once or twice, then flat-line.

The gullible, greedy, hateful and evil formed an alliance to kill the great experiment. Efforts to stop them have been too little, too late.

[kentuck]

19. Unlike Democrats, other countries will not just blame Donald Trump.

They will blame the American people. How could they have permitted all of this to happen??

[CousinIT]

24. It is the American people's fault. Mainly, the NON VOTERS. n/t

[bdamomma]

28. I believe they

will blame us too. Europeans get out in streets and stay there to apply as much heat as they can on scrupulous leaders/dictators.

Right now we are killing our allies the Kurds. It will be a very long time before our allies trust us again.

[OliverQ]

22. No they won't. No one will ever trust the US again.

They know the American system is too corrupt and we have too many idiots in this country that it's very easy to get another Trump.

[CousinIT]

23. America had better enact a slew of new laws after Trump to make ABSOLUTELY certain

We N E V E R "elect" another Trump again.

And even with that, it will take minimum 2-3 DECADES to gain our world respect back. IF we don't elect another goddamned Trump.

[cynatnite]

25. We'll have friends, but the question is about trust now. n/t

[FormerOstrich]

26. We will only have friends

if we behave worthy and make amends when possible.

From the outside looking in we are collectively responsible for our government billed as by the people.

In more ways that I want to admit we really are all collectively responsible.