Make America Great Again in 2024: If You’re a US Ally, Then What?
As the November election approaches, do Americans understand relations with US allies are at a tipping point?
The late Tip O’Neill, the long-serving Speaker of the House, famously remarked some decades ago that all politics are local. His observation applies in spades this year when voters will go to the polls in some five dozen elections around the world. The number of democratic contests in 2024 ups the odds of surprises, not to mention the challenge of anticipating the policies the newly elected will pursue.
Pity the analysts at Whitehall, the Elysée, the Prime Minister’s Office in Tokyo, and the Blue House in Seoul. Explaining to their prime ministers and presidents what’s coming post-election in the United States will be even tougher. Fueled by growing American political dysfunction as well as Washington’s latest congressional chaos, anxiety among US allies is rising as they await the results and consequences of the unfolding presidential campaign.
Leaders in Europe and Asia have long been following America’s deepening political divisions and their impact on US policies. This year’s elections may well produce vote tallies that change some faces across the table from the Oval Office occupant in 2025. But whoever shows up, they are likely to share the judgment that alliance relations are at a tipping point.
Most Americans, of course, aren’t paying much attention to such concerns. They just might be excused if they ignore politics in, say, the UK, the EU, or Japan this year. After all, from an indicted presidential candidate-cum-wanna-be authoritarian to his pending criminal trials and looming Supreme Court election-related decisions, their political news amounts to a forced feeding that would satiate even the most voracious appetite.
Disinterest in politics abroad also isn’t new. What’s important in 2024, however, is that it’s producing opinions that reflect a blasé attitude regarding the jeopardy facing the country if its allied relationships go south. The cognitive dissonance is striking. While support for US alliances has slipped since the Cold War, a majority of Americans still say they back US military commitments and recognize their value in Europe and Asia as well.
Recent opinion surveys on international affairs are cases in point. 2023’s results suggest most Americans believe in maintaining continuity in US foreign policy and US leadership around the globe. According to the Pew Research Center’s polling in July, for instance, 62 percent have a positive view of NATO. A Gallup survey in March indicated two-thirds queried believe the country should have the leading, or a major world role.
That said, for analysts abroad the devil is in the details and concern about the consequences of the next election is well grounded. According to Pew’s survey last May, twice as many Democrats as Republicans—60 percent compared to 29 percent—back an active US role in international affairs. The findings aren’t an outlier. In March, 38 percent of Republicans told Gallup they wanted the United States to play only a minor global role, or no role at all.
The opinion polls that are feeding the current conflict in Congress on aid to Ukraine undoubtedly are reinforcing the allies’ angst. A December Pew study revealed half of Republicans surveyed said too much was going to Kyiv, an uptick from a Reuters/Ipsos poll last June when 44 percent opposed military aid. The opposition is only the tip of the party’s apparent isolationist iceberg; 48 percent of GOPers in June said the war was none of America’s business at all.
For analysts in allied capitals trying to discern the future of their US relationships, the contradictions presented by Republican views and the pronouncements of the GOP’s presumed presidential standard bearer must be confusing. Consider the GOP rank and file’s take on America’s friends and enemies. Among Republicans polled last May, 63 percent fingered Russia as an adversary; 49 percent said NATO matters; and 52 percent viewed Ukraine favorably.
As for Donald Trump, the party’s front-running presidential candidate? He’s threatened to pull out of NATO, called Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine an act of genius, said he can end the “ridiculous war” in a day, and told Kyiv to cede territory for peace. Nevertheless, asked last month by Pew to pick their favorite among the half-dozen candidates vying for the party’s presidential nomination, 52 percent of Republicans said Trump was their choice.
Commenting on European views during the presidential election four years ago, Daniel S. Hamilton, a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a European studies scholar, put it this way. “Europeans saw Mr. Trump’s election (in 2016) by such a narrow margin as maybe a blip. If Americans re-elect him,” Hamilton said, “it’s a strategic decision.”
Maybe, but in any case, in 2024 it would be a good question to ask. What do Americans who support US international engagement, the country’s alliances, and Washington’s leadership abroad expect to happen if policies reflecting the opposite view prevail?
The pollsters at Pew and Gallup might consider adding the question to their surveys. US allies have had it on their minds for a long time.
In what the late Saddam Hussein once dubbed “the great Satan,” roughly two-thirds of the United States enlisted military corps is white . . . The fat, bulbous U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin once confirmed in a 93-2 vote of the U.S. Senate, immediately embarked on a whirlwind media tour of duty, telling the pseudo-secular sycophants in the state-controlled tabloid press and state-controlled television talk show circuit about how the U.S. Army is full of bad racist white men.
Senior Defense Department leaders celebrating yet another Pride Month at the Pentagon sounding the alarm about the rising number of state laws they say target the LGBTQ+ community, warned the trend is hurting the feelings of the armed forces . . . “LGBTQ plus and other diverse communities are under attack, just because they are different. Hate for hate’s sake,” said Gil Cisneros, the Pentagon’s undersecretary for personnel and readiness, who also serves as DoD’s chief diversity and inclusion officer.
And now the U.S. Army is doing ads begging for more young white males? What happened?
Even with a full-on declaration of war from Congress, and even if Gavin Newsome could be cheated into the Oval Office by ZOG somehow, with Globohomo diversity brigades going door-to-door looking to impress American children into military service, they will be met with armed, well-trained opposition, the invasion at the Southern border is going full tilt, and the drugs are flowing in like never before.
Get ready for it . . . the fat old devil worshipping fags on Capitol Hill, on Wall Street, in Whitehall, and in Brussels are in no shape to fight a war themselves, and most Americans are armed to the teeth with their own guns . . . NATO hates heterosexual white men . . . they said so themselves . . .
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