"America's friends will never trust the US again" Bloomberg opinion

[BobTheSubgenius]

25. I believe the mistrust and hostility towards America will be temporary.

Of course, there's a lot of room in which to define "temporary." It could well be that the wounds are too deep to heal inside a timeline of a couple of years, but still a temporary waiting period until the thaw. It's going to require some effort on the part of the US, and a president that is near-perfect for his time.

Remember how most of the world thought about GWB and his "administration?" It didn't take long at for Obama's administration to turn world opinion around. The next President is going to have his or her work cut out for them, and a LOT depends on how the world responds to the death of globalization. Some might well see it as Drumpf's fault, but the US and much of the world has been heading this way for some time. Every US leader has moved the country farther and farther away from the global community, but none have been so blatant and bellicose about it.

Bretton Woods has been on life support for quite a while, and while there are still debates to be had about it, its raisin d'etre has all but passed. It was mainly to have a way to deter, or, in the worst-case scenario, stop tanks from rolling West from the USSR. Does anyone think that is a threat any more? I still believe in NATO's mission, and the need for its existence, but no one is going to patrol the world's oceans any more. No one can. That's a job for destroyers, not super carriers, and the USN falls short of the destroyer count needed by hundreds.