I remember in the nineties and early 2000s everybody wanted to go to the U.S. on holiday: visit New York, the romantic city that never sleeps, where you can buy Levi's 501s and iPhones for cheap, because everyone wanted those back in the day.

Or California, the birthplace of surfing and skateboarding, where the weather was nice and the beaches and people are beautiful. It was spurred by what people saw in movies and on t.v. shows.

These days I don't hear many people speak positively about the US anymore. Lots of people think it's dangerous, with all the guns around and lots of violence in the streets and even in schools that are supposed to be safe places for children. Donald Trump getting elected is also a big part of it of course. It says something about the mindset of the American people and the course they want to follow.even as a tourist you don't feel safe or welcome anymore.

The culture of freedom and innovation many people admired has dwindled and is pretty much gone IMHO.

The feelgood movies about america seemed to have dried up. Any real news coming from across the pond is pretty dire, or at least negative.

Innovation is slowing. In my mind the iphone was the last really innovative physical good that was invented in the US which everyone was excited about.

I for one miss the old U.S. We need a better role model.

No shit. I don't consider the US to be my ally either, and I live here (in the US).

That’s exactly what Russia and gang had planned (among other things); well played….sadly…

MAGA/Trump winning in 2016 shocked us, to that point the US was seen as a weird but stable ally, we grew complacent since the US was run by predictable people, who's interest for their country mostly aligned with our interests.

Then a collected psychosis took over the US, MAGA, and with that came Trump, a president who is actively sabotaging their country for their own personal short term gains.

Now obviously those kinds of leaders are common, even in the West, but in general they do it quietly, while still appearing to care.

Trump came in and broke the rules, he pissed all over his country and it's allies (remember at the start of his presidency when there was this whole thing about him trying to establish dominance by squeezing the hands of other leaders when shaking their hands?), he pissed all over the environment, science and healthcare.

The unspoken rule was that, yeah idiots like that exists, but they never come to power.

Expect he did, and that showed the allies of the the US that the US is not as reliable as we thought.

The political ocean is storming, and the next guy to helm the U.S.S. USA. seems to think it is funny to cause wake and ride the most dangerous waves erratically.

I hope that the current administration manage to find a safe harbor before ending their shift despite that plenty of crew members are working on sabotaging the engine.

I mean, yeah? That seems like an obvious takeaway, at least for the remaining liberal democracies in the Union. The US is clearly not within that category, it aligns closer to Russia or Hungary.

The questions is whether the EU can stop sliding in that direction itself, not whether the US is "its most important ally". That ship has sailed.

We’re just far-west Russia now

Around 49% believe Washington is no longer their most important ally, instead preferring other countries, such as the UK (13%) or China (10%).

UK okay but China? Lmao. Also it has shit like Brazil in there lol

Good. Now issue sanctions plz

It only took like 400 years of cooperating on racist violence around the planet... Before USA became too shitty for even the other colonizers. This kind of "progress" is too slow to save the planet.

It's hard to miss Putin's smirk in his latest TV appearances.

Oh there are several EU nations just waiting to pounce on our inevitable tumble from the world stage. Spain, France, Portugal, and Italy are working behind the scenes to strengthen ties with their past colonies in Central and South America so when Trump actually starts bombing them because of "the war on drugs" and "migrant crisis" they'll offer direct and indirect support. (up to be including Nuclear weapons.) Other nations want nothing more to be the first one's in control of Nuclear weapons in Central and South America. This would weaken American control over two of the fastest growing and most profitable continents on the planet outside of Africa. Suddenly, Spain and Portugal for example would have access to Venezuelan oil without worrying about US sanctions and economic threats while having Venezuela as a pseudo colony again. (Trump already tried overthrowing Venezuela once with private military forces.)