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The response to Donald Trump’s policy initiatives, the fate of Ukraine, and the issue of massive investment and record debt are on German voters’ minds two weeks after the federal election.
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Everybody who trusts the United States, say “Aye!”
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Anybody here? …body here?
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One good thing that might come out of all of this, is that USA people might stop being so annoying about how great and perfect their country supposedly is whenever you talk to them. Every time i hear someone chanting “USA, USA” i fell like whacking them with a bat.
Unfortunately, the problem is that the Americans who think America is better than everyone else and are always shouting it from the rooftops, are also mostly the people who think Trump is great and will approve of just about anything he does uncritically.
A lot of us are super fucking embarrassed about the way our country behaves and vote against it every time we can, it’s just unfortunately a very difficult battle and the way our elections works makes it a bit easier for Republicans to win at the national scale, generally.
I always tell people it’s overrated and shit for years and Hollywood is selling lies.
Hollywood has brainwashed people for decades about the US, army and police.
It’s a death cult.
To be honest, I’m surprised they still did after 2016.
The actual news is that DW parrots the German governments opinion. Which isn’t really news either. I dare say that the population in Germany has been “somewhat ambivalent” about the benevolence of US foreign politics for quite a while.
Germany was very positive and trusting of Obama and the US during that time and we started regaining some trust under Biden, but it definitely never has been the same after Trump first took office
The drone murders didn’t find much sympathy here but thanks to most of our media’s, uh… “transatlantic engagement” the topic didn’t get too much publicity.
There’s a good chance trump is going to try to help Putin by invading Ukraine from the west. I can’t see a better reason to move 35000 troops from Germany to Hungary.
Understandable. I cannot think of less trustworthy people than each of the people put into power for this administration.
I have dual citizenship and I will be staying in America. It ain’t perfect but neither is Germany.
Certainly seems like you’ve declared for a side.
I mean all of my family and friends are here.
Other than like great great grandparents that own rural bakeries and are like 107 nobody is in Germany.
If shit really hits the fan we might dip. My little sister is thinking about going there for college but she’s not comfortable with the amount of German she knows. She’s conversationally sufficient but she doesn’t speak it well enough for academic purposes according to my mother.
I have no idea because my mom didn’t teach me or my older brother any German lol.
Picking up a new language is not that difficult if you are still young, know the basics and then live in an environment that speaks this language.
Most Americans feel the same way about their own country
I miss G.W., I thought he would be the worst person ever in power.
Remember the innocent days when we thought W was incredibly dumb?
He was dumb. And a war criminal. The current mess doesn’t change that.
Yes, but he can’t be called “incredibly dumb” anymore, because Trump made an entirely different level of stupidity not only credible, but bitter reality.
I think Trump is smarter than Bush.
Pretty sure that Bush never would have boasted about his ability to memorize “Person, woman, man, camera, TV” or called himself a “stable genius”. The guy is Dunning-Krugering along and listening to vile gut feelings.
Bush wasn’t as much of a narcissist
No but it does diffuse it a bit.
It’s like holding the land speed record in 1911.
Every president is the worst person in power during their time.
G.W. started normalizing a lot of the shit that we see today, like brazen disregard for the truth.
If you miss G.W. Bush then you learned nothing.
We should have started this process right after 9/11 honestly. If not sooner.
The US government has been conquered by Russia without a single shot fired.
Yeah, that will go in history books: how to conquer a nuclear superpower without causing a nuclear war. People were joking so much about Putin in the last few years, but it turns out his 5D chess game played out perfectly. People in Europe should stop underestimating Putin, otherwise we will fail the same way the US did.
Strange. USA looks the same out my window.
No surprise really. This is from 2019 https://www.reuters.com/article/world/nicht-gut-nearly-85-percent-of-germans-see-us-german-ties-as-negative-idUSKCN1PX1C6/
Otoh, things have rather dramatically turned around on at least two fronts:
[…] Donald Trump, who has criticized Germany repeatedly for its […] participation in the Russian-led Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.
[…] only 1.9 percent worried about Russia[n influence] […]
Merkel, in the other hand, kneecapped Germany and Europe at her refusal to see the Russian threat and to acknowledge US’ inherent instability (as anything in the US can change at a whim of a sitting president)
I’ll bet it’s due to the FUCKING NAZIS that took over the government
Germany has no issue with supporting Nazism As long as they’re not the main face of it. They’re currently funding a genocide in Palestine.
