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If Vice President J.D. Vance hoped to earn respect among international leaders with his speech in Germany last week, it wouldn't work, according to one senior diplomat.

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[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 19 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, the first go around we could think "they didn't know what they were voting for". Just a bump in the road for a democracy which would be corrected in the next election.

But now that benefit of the doubt is gone. This is what the US wants to be, a country that appeases enemies and betrays allies.

"Sir, a second Trump regime has hit the White House."