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[–] Woht24@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago (4 children)

This is one of the weirdest things anti-maga types have begun spewing.

Germany started two world wars and they have not been 'forever isolated as untrustworthy'. I can assure you, the world is laughing at the US and Trump and a lot of countries and groups are angry.

If you stuck a half decent person in the chair and apologised, retracted tarrifs etc, I'm sure it'd all blow over in a few years.

Now your internet racially motivated Civil war? Yeah I don't think you'll get out of that one

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

It took Germany decades and at least couple of generations to shake off the lable, and in a lot of cases they still do. Obviously it's not forever, but decades might as well be forever if you're trying to open an international business or whatever

Yeah, you're probably right. But a lot of trust will still be gone, it's hard to make serious commitments with a country that has a history of ripping them up.

[–] Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If something takes more than 4 years it gets lumped into "never" territory because no political party wants the next party to get credit for their work.

Guarantee it took Germany more than 4 years to recover their reputation (and even then, not enough to do well in Eurovision).

[–] Woht24@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago

Yeah... Okay then.

[–] turnip@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The problem other country have is they are owed and they owe other countries USD. Its been the reserve currency since before the US stole Europe's gold, its the currency of our global financial system.