Wednesday, December 6, 2017

Germans Recognize HIerarchy Building by Trump as Challenge

According to a survey by the Koerber Foundation, and reported in Reuters, Germans see U.S. President Donald Trump as a bigger challenge for German foreign policy than authoritarian leaders in North Korea, Russia or Turkey. Hierarchies are easiest to see in lower groups, and the problems that Trump is creating by building hierarchies nationally and internationally are more obvious abroad than to many of his like-minded supporters in the United States.

Apparently Trump, in his efforts to "Make America Great Again," has forgotten that countries without friends are very isolated in their "greatness." From on isolated top of the hierarchies he is building, he believes he has access to all the resources and power to get what he wants. Time will tell.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-germany-survey/germans-see-trump-as-bigger-problem-than-north-korea-or-russia-idUSKBN1DZ0GY