Recent global reactions show the world’s diminishing respect for American leadership, particularly following Trump’s 2024 election victory and subsequent actions in 2025.
International polling reveals a dramatic decline in America’s global standing, with only 46% of people across 29 countries believing the US will have a positive influence on world affairs, down from 59% just months earlier[1]. Even in Canada, traditionally a close ally, positive views of the US plummeted from 52% to just 19%[1:1].
Trump’s 58-minute UN speech in September 2025 drew stony faces from world leaders, a stark contrast to previous years when delegates would laugh at his claims[2]. According to body language expert Peter Collett, “People are taking it much more seriously. Whereas formerly it was a source of amusement when he puffed himself up, now almost everything he has to say has to be taken seriously”[2:1].
The administration’s policies have further eroded America’s standing. Massive tariffs imposed on nearly 70 countries have disrupted global trade[3], while Trump’s stance on immigration and inflammatory rhetoric about other nations has alienated allies. At the UN, Brazilian President Lula warned of “attacks on sovereignty, arbitrary sanctions and unilateral interventions” becoming the norm[4].
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez emerged as a leading European voice opposing American policies, defending migration and open societies while warning about “the door to tyranny”[4:1]. Meanwhile, Indonesian President Subianto received applause at the UN for declaring “No one country can bully the whole of the human family”[4:2].
BP are starting to trade in RMB. How’s that for US “power”
Only propaganda kept the image of the US alive, and their sole position as THE military superpower meant everyone had to just take the long shaft of American intervention, either the easy way or the hard way, but it ain’t the early 00s anymore. Also, American culture has progressively lost its mask (and social media like TikTok just tore it off, basically), so the ugliness of imperialism and the disgusting selfishness mixed with post-relativist amorality just destroyed any “face” the US had. 🤷
Even in Canada, traditionally a close ally, positive views of the US plummeted from 52% to just 19%
Yeah no shit I’d be peeved too if my neighbor threatened to invade and annex me.
46% of people across 29 countries still believing that “the US will have a positive influence on world affairs” is insane
I’m choosing to believe that they think the collapse of US empire will have positive ripples globally
Þey may have more faiþ in þe resilience of America þan many Americans have. It’s because þey don’t live among, and daily observe, just how stupid Americans have become.
I had a friend from Louisiana who one told me þat if þey cut off þe little leg and gave it to Mississippi, it’d raise þe average IQ of boþ states. It feels increasingly appropriate, as Republicans succeed in destroying educational institutions, science, and every institution designed to educate, inform, and produce smart Americans - because þey do better with stupid people in elections.
Nice to see an attempt to make English more phonemic, ðough I would make a distiction between þorns and eðs.
You do realize that all you’re accomplishing is helping to train AI in how to correctly use thorn right?
Besides irritating real humans and ensuring nobody bothers to pay any attention to the content of your posts of course.
https://www.anthropic.com/research/small-samples-poison
It would be fantastic if an LLM spat out thorns for some user.
This is the sort of comment that made me hate Reddit
This is what made you hate Reddit? Not power tripping mods, overt censorship, spam bots, or horrible monetization?
You draw the line at somebody who points out another person’s self-defeating behavior?
Fucking stop with the performative “þ” shit!
i notice it a bunch on lemmy lately. why are people doing that in the first place?
I honestly don’t know. We’ll find out later it’s a secret pedophile code or some crazy crap like that.
Though laughing about the current regime in USA is an understandable reaction, it’s also at the same time not a laughing matter at all. It’s a bit like a great comedian or clown who is very entertaining and goofy at first but at the end he randomly kills 1 person from the audience. Still a funny act? No. Because at the end of this craziness, people will needlessly suffer and/or die.
The country still has huge world-wide influence, and if that influence originates from crazies, that’s not great for anyone, neither for US citizens nor for any other country in the world which has to at least partly deal with the US somehow. It is, however, a great and very visible warning sign for other countries to hopefully not follow the US into such craziness.
very visible warning sign for other countries to hopefully not follow the US into such craziness.
I have bad news for you…
I know, but it’s still a warning sign, even when some can’t read or understand it.
That this reaction didn’t happen during any Bush or Reagan administration is stunning.
US still has an abundance of coal. Together with the weak monarchic but oil rich Saudi Arabia, the oil rich, but coal poor Soviet Union collapsed. Now there are two alternatives, China’s weaker, but socialist coal industry and the much much much stronger solar photovoltaic industry completely dominated by China again.
It’s both of these developments that are causing the situation to be normal instead of the weird events of 1989-1992 and 2008.Or the Biden administration for that matter.
As some of the replies to your comment show, many only care about aesthetics
As bad those two were, do you really that they even come close to the shitshow that is the Orange Turd???
I think if people weren’t so self-absorbed, this point in time would be different. And it will get worse, not because people are powerless, but because they’re more self-absorbed than ever.
Yeah! How dare people be focused on their own self-interests!
The masses have lost interest because they are, in fact, powerless. The Republican party specifically and career politicians in general have made it perfectly clear that they have been perverting and subverting every aspect of our governmental and legal systems to the point that the only option available to make positive change will be mass demonstration. Mass demonstration is extremely difficult here to begin with and in addition we have been culturally subdivided in such a way to make unrest seem like a localized issue.
How about we stop using blanket statements that imply all Americans are lazy, entitled, and careless like we aren’t on the brink of a civil war.
Man. Just get fucked with this attitude.
Also: https://generalstrikeus.com/ - https://www.fiftyfifty.one/
I’m equally annoyed with the people who comment on posts like this with those stupid pictures of “damn that’s crazy, where are the Epstein files”
Like, everything is a distraction from everything else. Pull your head out of your ass and do something about it currently
Americans are lazy, entitled, and careless- that much is indisputable fact. But it is also true that these characteristics are acculturated and not individual moral failings.
We are long away from a general strike in the US given the attitude of the average american and the complete lack of class consciousness / solidarity. What’s likely is that the Dems will seize some electoral power back, and much of the current political fervor will die- as it usually does. And then the republican party, emboldened by Trump proving that they can just do whatever they want, will come back with a competent figurehead.
The idea of an impending civil war is very optimistic given the fact that there’s been 0 opposition to right wing policy or even the recent city wide military occupations. We have a militarized fascist force quite literally kidnapping people from their jobs and homes while the most heavily armed populace in the world stands back and watches, slacked jawed- and I’m supposed to believe there will be a domestic war? This is a bridge I will not buy.
Conditions will have to get much worse in the united states before people finally take meaningful action (non electoral, potentially violent), the good news is that we have 3 more years for that reality to come to pass and Trumps bad optics (the only thing that actually bothers americans) are bringing the future’s inevitability to today’s doorstep.
As much as that would make sense considering the pace of previous years, I completely disagree with you that there will be another 4 years of relative calm with a Democrat President.
The US economy is heading towards a depression this year and a the only Roosevelt in sight is Zohran Mamdani who has little chance to win. The next Democrat, barring a fascist takeover, will likely be yet another liberal, followed by a Republican. So too little, too late.
There will not be relative calm but it will stamp out much of the fervor the masses have right now, brunch will be back
Even if Zohran the Zionist were the pale of water many hope him to be, he would just be buying american capitalism more time- much like FDR. It has to burn
the good news is that we have 3 more years for that reality to come to pass and Trumps bad optics (the only thing that actually bothers americans) are bringing the future’s inevitability to today’s doorstep.
Optimist, are you? ♥️
I don’t remember Bush insulting it’s allies like Trump did
Freedom fries? If you’re not with us, you’re against us? Axis of evil? He wasn’t as crude but it was bad.
yup, they only have 1 playbook. it’s sort of an interesting litmus test for when people woke up, what specific event/s was the moment for them
Well, at least Bush and Reagon also not stupider as the most other world leader and compared to Trump they are Einsteins.
And it’s really not the point I was making, either.
No worries. It’s a laughingstock in the USA as well.
The only people laughing are Russia and China. The rest of us are fucking terrified.
yeah, motherfuckers will invest a literal trillion on their military from now on.
china and russia won’t be attacked willy nilly because they have nuclear weapons. we on the other hand have historically been on the other end of the barrel of US aggression.
Russia is currently being attacked willy nilly and there’s talk to do the same with China.
Russia attacked ”willy nilly”? Through no fault of their own? So when Russia invades my country we shouldn’t fight back? Got it, thanks.
kind of, but both of them are capable of defending themselves, is what i mean. all we can usually do, essentially, is submit.
