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It becomes pretty hard to do business or build internation relationships when you assume that the other side will stop being rational at any point in time. Ima
by makeitdouble 4y ago
It becomes pretty hard to do business or build internation relationships when you assume that the other side will stop being rational at any point in time.
Imagine it from the other side of the table: would any country rely on US companies for their OS or business tools if tomorrow the US could start a war against them ?
That's a possibility that is never frown away, and any countries with enough resources will make efforts to mitigate it, but that can't be the base assumption behind the relationship.
- 9dev 4y agoHah, funny you bring that issue up. When Trump was president, indeed other countries regarded the USA as having stopped being rational. I can’t even begin to tell you how bewildering it was to watch that shitshow from over the pond — let alone the storming of the capitol, and Trump not being declared an enemy of the people after. That was the lowest point in your history. There was just so much lost that day. What’s worse, when he’ll inevitably be elected again, our trust in the US as a partner will be gone completely.
- Gud 4y agoNot a trump supporter, but in both Russia and China he appears to have been spot on, where everyone else has been wrong. Remember his so called ties to Russia? He even warned Germany not be reliant on them for gas, while they snickered at him.