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The US is leading noone if nobody follows. Who do you think will follow? Thousands of treaties, conventions, agreements, and other arrangements are negotiated
by flexie 9y ago
The US is leading noone if nobody follows. Who do you think will follow?
Thousands of treaties, conventions, agreements, and other arrangements are negotiated all the time. The Paris accord is just one, but a major one. The belief that the American government can be trusted to stick to a good cause, let alone stick to deals it has made before, has been eroded. American diplomats will find it harder to persuade other governments to do anything. They will also find that they have fewer favours to call.
- nickik 9y agoDemocracies change their mind. Big update! You should write a international relations paper on this. Everybody understand that a treaty like Paris is just a big PR thing. Its is unenforced and the waste majority of people working on it will not be around when the results of it are in. This is all about signalling. Trump wants to signal that he doesn't give a fuck and he is tough (or something). If they wanted to know that American diplomacy is not consistent they could have looked at literally any point in US history. The could call Cuba what happened with the Platt Amendment.