I'm hoping lots of Americans read and understand this article from The New Yorker just now. I think it very likely true but also important, however ugly for us.
The World Likes Biden But Doubts the U.S. Can Reclaim Global Leadership
A bit from the article:
...Biden faces the core problem of convincing the United States’ chief diplomatic, economic, and military allies to believe in America again. Some wonder if the U.S.—which was, for decades, the world’s most powerful democracy—has lost its groove for good. “It will be hard to convince allies that Washington is capable of coming back as a global leader,” Mark Leonard, the co-founder and director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, told me. “Our polling shows that, while most people in Europe were happy to see Biden elected, they also feel that America’s political system is broken, that they can’t rely on the U.S.A. to defend them, and that China will overtake the U.S.A. as a great power.” Europeans like what Biden stands for, “but they are not convinced that he can deliver, and they are worried about who will follow in his wake.”America’s global reputation has plummeted to the point that it will even be difficult to persuade key Western allies to make common cause against China. “A majority of the public would prefer to stay neutral than to take America’s side,” Leonard said of European views. To regain the confidence of allies, the Biden Administration would have to think differently about alliances—and not assume “that other nations will automatically follow American leadership,” he added. Most of all, Biden has to prove that America has “the staying power to follow through.”
Yet more proof, as though we need or needed it, of the damage Republican Party President Donald J "Jenius" Trump and his political party did to our nation and nation's standing in the world.
Thanks so much, fellas. One more thing that's on us but that is also on you, on you all. Forever. You did this.