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(315 posts)The rest of the world has put up with disastrous US policies for decades... and has been looking for alternatives for decades...
Now that the US is quickly making itself irrelevant from a policy point of view, and going out of it's way to destabilise the UN, EU, Asia, this search for a better alternative is reaching a fever pitch.
Right now, in a recent poll, 20% MORE Irish citizens DON'T want the US President to visit, and if he does he'll be met by FIERCE protests. The same is true in most European countries.
And this - with us or against us - is making a lot more "against us" than I've ever ever seen.
At some point - we're only a few months in - countries are going to - because of the will of voters - stand up properly to the US DESPITE the economic impact.
Europe VERY MUCH feels that much of it's economic and political uncertainty is down to US foreign policy. All those refugees? That's thanks to the US.
Brexit?
US foreign policy.
And on and on.
This is going to matter more than economics soon enough. It won't erase economics, but it'll matter more to the electorate here.