It joined the EU in In addition to being one of the countries with the highest disapproval ratings of the U. Austria is also somewhat of an outlier on this list, as it is neither a former Soviet Republic, nor a predominantly Islamic nation. Egypt is the most populous country in the Arab world and a key ally of the U. The disapproval rating remained flat since the ousting of democratically elected President Mohammed Morsi. However, the subsequent cuts to the U.
Above, supporters of Egypt's former President Hosni Mubarak gather outside the Maadi military hospital for his birthday on May 4 in Cairo. In , Iranian revolutionaries seized the U.
There have been U. More recently, the U. Above, Iranian soldiers chant anti-Israeli and anti-U. According to the U. Osama bin Laden was hiding in Pakistan, and the U. Above, Pakistani residents shout slogans as they march behind a banner during a protest in Peshawar on May 5 against the anti-Muslim cartoon exhibition in Garland, Texas.
Possibly contributing to a longer term U. Since the fiscal year, Congress has placed conditions on annual aid to Lebanon. Above, a Lebanese soldier adjusts a machine gun mounted on a military vehicle upon the arrival of a shipment of U. Further, the U. Today, international relations is little more than a transactional bargain for the United States, and power—not ideals, history, or alliances—is the currency. Demonstrators have marched in Australia and New Zealand, both of which have their own distinct racial divides and history of abuse, as well as in Britain and France, each with histories of colonialism and continuing race and class divisions.
It is remarkable, as Ishaan Tharoor of The Washington Post has pointed out , that it took the death of a black man in Minneapolis for Belgian authorities to pull down a statue of the person responsible for some of the most heinous colonial crimes in history.
For Europe, in particular, continued domination by the U. In London and Paris, however, there is an increasing acknowledgment that this cannot be the case—that there has been a fundamental and permanent shift. Those that I spoke with divided their concerns, implicitly or explicitly, into ones caused by Trump and ones exacerbated by him—between the specific problems of his presidency that, in their view, can be rectified, and those that are structural and much more difficult to solve.
Almost everyone I spoke with agreed that the Trump presidency has been a watershed not just for the U. Words once said cannot be unsaid; images that are seen are unable to be unseen.
The immediate concern for many of those I interviewed was the apparent hollowing out of American capacity. Take the confusion over the coming G7 summit in September. Trump sought to broaden the group, notably including Russia and India, with the aim, I was told, of building an anti-China concert of powers. But this was rejected by Britain and Canada, and Merkel refused to show up in person during the pandemic.
Behind the scenes, France has been trying to mend fences—this is not how a superpower is supposed to be treated. Read: How did we get here? A European ambassador told me Trump himself is an expression of American decline. It is a sign of the United States following other great powers downward, something Biden—a septuagenarian who must be shielded from crowds because he is among the most vulnerable populations for the novel coronavirus—only illustrates further.
Today, they are a successful country, but they have simply lost their power. To some extent, the U. N ot everyone is convinced. Second, Blair argued that the United States remains extraordinarily resilient, whatever its current challenges, because of the strength of its economy and political system. A final caveat, according to the former British leader, is China itself, whose global omnipotence or respect should not be overstated.
Blair—a committed Americanophile—nevertheless stressed that the U. American financial and military might meant that even their combined power was irrelevant. Read: How China is planning to win back the world. The truth is that we live in an American world, and will continue to do so, even as its power slowly fades. At one level, the Europe that sent tens of thousands of people to listen to Obama speak at the Brandenburg Gate when he was not even yet president is the same one that packed tens of thousands into European capitals at the height of a global pandemic to call for justice for George Floyd: It is an international community obsessed with America, and dominated by it.
It is one that feels as if it had a stake in America, because it does, even if it is not constitutionally a party of it. If this is a uniquely humiliating moment for the U. It is a solemn moment for the American democracy. For with primacy in power is also joined an awe-inspiring accountability to the future. If you look around you, you must feel not only the sense of duty done, but also you must feel anxiety lest you fall below the level of achievement.
Yet this is also a nation that is not Russia or China, as much as its own leader would have us all believe. In Moscow and Beijing, for starters, it would not be possible to protest in such numbers and with such vehemence. From a European perspective, it is also striking to see the energy, the oratory, and the moral authority once again bubbling up from below—the beauty of America, not the ugliness.
To listen to an Atlanta rapper address a press conference, or a Houston police chief speak to a crowd of protesters, is to watch a more accomplished, powerful, and eloquent public speaker than almost any European politician I can think of.
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