The impact to social bonds between the US and other Western nations has been thrown completely off track, and now they are looking for exits from anything US related.

These tarrifs were the absolutely dumbest thing imaginable, and have brought the post WWII period of US economic prosperity to a point it can never recover.

It's only down from here. We pissed off our friends.

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sejje 10 hours ago | parent [-]

I agree, social credit is changing. We're not as friendly with other western nations anymore, we're dictating terms.

When will we start seeing the downtrend?

	▲	esseph 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		When will we start? Did you miss the thread about us losing 10,000 PhDs already because of these policies? Or the threads about people looking for and starting to build alternatives for US tech? These are wounds that will take a long time to play out, but your kids generation will feel it, though they may never realize what we lost. Also, we already are: https://www.kielinstitut.de/publications/news/americas-own-g...