• Woht24@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    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
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      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

    • Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      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
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      5 days ago

      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).

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      4 days ago

      The problem other country have is they are owed and they owe people USD. Its been the reserve currency since before the US stole Europe’s gold.