Die USA waren eine Nation, der die Welt nacheifern wollte – Trump hat sie zum Paria gemacht
The US was a nation the world wanted to emulate – Trump has made it a pariah
Die USA waren eine Nation, der die Welt nacheifern wollte – Trump hat sie zum Paria gemacht
The US was a nation the world wanted to emulate – Trump has made it a pariah
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“The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind,” wrote the great English radical Thomas Paine in his hugely influential pamphlet *Common Sense*, calling for American independence from British rule under a republican government which guaranteed individual rights and liberties.
The pamphlet, which sold upwards of half a million copies before the end of the American War of Independence, was published exactly 250 years ago today, on 10 January, 1776. By the grimmest of ironies, its anniversary comes at the very moment when the cause of America and global liberty is fast foundering as the fundamental principles of 1776 are discarded by the equally radical American counter-revolution of 2026.
[Donald Trump](https://inews.co.uk/topic/donald-trump?ico=in-line_link) and his administration openly despise democratic and legal restraints, transforming America into the antithesis of Paine’s expectations. [In the space of a few days](https://inews.co.uk/news/world/trumps-aggression-taught-three-things-what-dont-know-4157975?ico=in-line_link), the US has kidnapped the president of an independent state, taken control of that country’s oil wealth, asserted its right to seize any vessel on the high seas, and reiterated its plans to annex the vast Arctic island of [Greenland](https://inews.co.uk/topic/greenland?srsltid=AfmBOop2wN6CZ_WaXWFsRY8rgrHsa3cd6VVRj3fGAL7B2sHneIj35v8-&ico=in-line_link), which is a semi-autonomous part of Denmark.
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All going to Putin’s plan
It’s true, I always admired the USA as a military power and also as a beautiful country. Today, however, my view has completely changed. The USA is a beautiful country, but the food is terrible, the healthcare system is a joke, medicines are extremely expensive, and legal gun ownership leads to a huge number of killings. That is why Trump dislikes Europe – because it represents the opposite of many of the problems that exist in the USA.
As a european it was never a nation we wanted to emulate
Its a third world country in a first world jacket
Trump acts on what ever is put in his ears. And right now, one of the most dangerous people in the country, Steven Miller, is spinning Trump up all the time.
As an european, I always saw America as a fascist country with a mask of ‚leaders of the free world‘. Even the ‚leftist‘ hollywood is a propaganda machine for fascist ideals, where the good cops assault suspects like its tuesday. Maybe americans reading this are not aware, but that’s because the brainwshing worked.
Trump make most americans think that the mask is no longer necesary because no country can oppose them. They don’t need excuses to change regimes around the world and bomb people here and there. Because thats what great countries do, right?
People like to act otherwise but the US legitimately used to be a house on the hill.
Now we’re Nazi Germany, with history books as an instruction manual.
Emulate?
Seriously?
Why would we want to emulate a third world country?
And it’s not even that it is one now, this isn’t new.
No, thank you. Not even in my dreams
I don’t think it’s that simple. People have been fighting US influence since ww2. The world didn’t really emulate it at all. This article is bait
As an American, this is the part that hurts the most. You can disagree on policy all day, but becoming the global punchline is a different kind of loss.
I’ve been traveling internationally with my job for the past 25 years. When I started my career, people in Europe and elsewhere were typically like „Oh cool, America! The States! I’d love to live there or at least visit!“ It was very much a common reaction, so much so that it was predictable and mundane. I’d usually deflect and say something like „We’re definitely not perfect, its not like the movies and TV shows for everyone.“
Since Trump, the reaction has become „Oh I’m so sorry you have to live there. The idea of raising kids in that country just seems impossible, how do you manage?“
It’s a really stark change and it fills me with anger that so many of my countrymen support the insanity this orange pedophile has brought to our country, and to the world stage.
Yeah this is not accurate but absolutely something that an arrogant American with no self-awareness would say.
Trump has made the United States a shithole country to live in and it’s no surprise that no other country would want the hot garbage that this country has become.
I just don’t understand how half of American voters saw Trump and said „yup that’s the guy I want running this country“.
It does not compute.
Understand that this collapse runs far deeper than the shallow mind of Trump. I lobby. He was created and others like him will also be created by what are honestly entirely Republican initiatives that removed fair and neutral media rules and then the supreme court permanently legalized unlimited bribery and coercion in campaign finance from hidden donors. Not partisan, but thems the facts. Only one party needs to go bad to kill a republic.
It’s not logically possible to still be a republic after that and until and unless it is massively changed, it will worsen continually. It corrupts both parties because legalized corruption in a competitive area necessarily becomes mandatory corruption for all elected officials. Trump could not have risen without those problems. Even the Russians and Chinese should be very, very afraid and be careful what they wish for.
As a Canadian it is unsettling to share a border with the US right now. So much political uncertainty and unrest in the last few years has made the US a clear and present danger to Canada. With the annexation of Greenland seeming to be an inevitability at this point, one can only wonder where America’s imperialist ambitions end.
USA was a joke decades before the schism Trump provided. It is the long plan, sadly working.
Pfft not really.
Iraq was a mess and based on false pretences by Bush.
Vietnam was a mess and based on an unsubstantiated domino theory.
I don’t think anyone wanted to be like the US? All the other democracies have good social nets, free healthcare, and a multi party system.
Have been to the states numerous times over the last few decades. So much to like and do, but it has changed dramatically in the last few years.
Still plenty of nice people there but there was always an underlining prejudice and bigotry that hid in the shadows. It’s now an open wound. Trump is a monster but it’s not just him.
The far right have removed the shackles of intolerance and preyed on nationalist partiality and I’m genuinely surprised that so many have taken to it. Even more shocking is there appears to be no challenge or accountability. The US constitution seems to be worthless. The US is headed up by a literal criminal child-rapist! Who is standing up to it, politically? All I can hear is silence. Really not looking good.
I won’t be going back any time soon.
Yeah, I too drank the Kool aid. But after visiting numerous times for work, I have to say that all of the good is counterbalanced with some of the most degrading, inhumane bullshit at a scale that defies comprehension.
Virtually no safety nets, massively for profit medical care, rampant corruption and absolute financial immorality (gambling anything, cryptocurrency), total lack of labor protection, rapidly decaying infrastructure, privatization of infrastructure as a for profit venture and complete and total failure to curb billionaire oligarchy dismantling of the very social fabric… Nah, fuck emulating that
Where are the Epstein files?
Trump thinks things are going great. He’s finding new ways to fill his pockets every day. Half the country believes his BS and even if there were another election, he will win by a landslide, like Putin does.He doesn’t care if the world fears him, it’s the only way he’s ever had „respect“ and he enjoys it.
As a child in Europe I dreamed of living there
As an adult I wouldn’t, under any circumstances.
For me it’s the existential despair knowing what my taxpayer dollars are funding. It legitimately wears on my soul. It’s haunting. I don’t know what the answer is. I am in a position to leave; I’m a traveling nurse with a lot of experience and could ultimately find employment elsewhere and work towards citizenship eventually. But that feels like such a fucking cop out. I feel like I need to do more but I don’t know what that more is beyond what I’m already doing.
Everything he touches, breaks.
When they shoot somebody in cold blood and the president and vice president grant complete immunity to the murderer, it doesn’t exactly make people want to come over to the U.S. to provide another body for target practice.
Realistically, we (in Europe at least) admired some stuffs about US; but not every single side of it.
Also, when discovered what the price to pay is, even for the stuff we admired, well…let’s say the math did not worked.
Nah thanks…I’d still pick every single European state over US.
Already West and done for
Most europeans have no plans for tourist visits to the US anymore. Perhaps wheb Trump is gone, we can get some back?
Reactionary
The US was built on Genocide, slavery and continuous wars.
Stop this BS
trump didn’t. We did… by first letting him get into office and second, not stopping him. This is all on us. We should be strong enough and smart enough to stop him. It is our responsibility to protect the world from him.
Yeah the thing is that most of the US image was projected by it’s movies and TV series.
I noticed a sharp decline in america positivity with the advent of the internet, when ever more ppl saw the reality of what the US really is.
We are joining w the nation other countries won’t touch with a 10 foot pole and a haz mat suit
I’ve been fortunate in my life to have visited the states on a regular basis for long periods of time. I’ve been to numerous places around the continent, north, south, east, west and the central heartlands. I once had aspirations of one day moving there from my home in the UK. Not anymore. Since 2016 and the run up to the election the US changed dramatically. I’m so glad that I didn’t take that leap. I also regret that visiting the US in extremely unlikely to ever happen again. I really do hope things get better there for everyone – but I doubt it. It’s on a downward trajectory – quicker than anyone could have imagined.
It was always a pariah though. Only now the US is more open about it