***. “I believe it is among nations as with individuals,, that the party taking advantage of the distressed of another will lose infinitely more i the opinion of mankind, and in subsequent events, than he will gain by the stroke of the moment.”
[ George Washington; 7/28/1791. ]
This post presents excerpts from “Iran war is a master class in squandering credibility”. [. Fareed Zakaria; Washington Post Weekly; 8/23/26]. Read this article, please. Understand a basic truth of the Trump DICTATORSHIP’s effect on American standing in the world: Trump has drastically. LOWERED faith in the United States around the world. – by his rhetoric and his actions. Multiple public opinion polls taken in countries – which USED TO BE. our friends and allies confirm this. YOUR safety is now threatened. If America were to become involved in a war with one of THE most powerful nations. – how many countries would help us????? America is. LOSING. CREDIBILITY because of Donald John Trump.
The reputation and record the United States built, 1945-2015, has been severely damaged by the Trump DICTATORSHIP. Look no further than Trump’s STPUID and reckless assault on Canada – THE single most STUPID foreign affairs BLUNDER in. all. 1775 – 2026 American history. This article is but ONE example of how the Trump DICTATORSHIP. has damaged America’s standing in the world.
10]. “During the Cuban missile crisis, President John F. Kennedy sent former secretary of state Dean Acheson to Paris to brief Charles de Gaulle on the discovery of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba. Acheson brought reconnaissance photographs to prove the case. De Gaulle, hardly an American supplicant, waved them away. He said he did not need the evidence. The word of the president of the United States was enough. That scene is unimaginable today.”
[ NOTE: it is “unimaginable today” BECAUSE of Donald John Trump ]
***. “Credibility is a leader’s currency. With it, he or she is solvent. Without it, he or she is bankrupt.”
[. John C. Maxwell. ]
1]. “Earlier this month, a minor geopolitical earthquake shook the Middle East. Saudi Arabia and Turkey. – two nations that have been openly hostile toward one another for much of the last decade. – pledged to go to war i each other’s defense…… So what brought them together? President Donald Trump. – or rather the two countries’ diminishing faith in him and his word.”
2]. “The iran war has been a master class in how to squander credibility. Recall both received security commitments from Trump only last year.”
3] “But Trump’s word is a solid with his counterparts abroad as it was with his bankers in New York.”
***. “Without character, there is no credibility; and without credibility, there is no trust.” [ Warren Bennis ]
4] “The world has learned to treat his Truth Social announcements as a mix of fact and fiction, like some of the AI – generated videos he posts.”
5]. “The same pattern is visible in Europe. In may, the Pentagon announced that 5,000 American troops would leave Germany, and Trump suggested more cuts were coming. The Pentagon then scrapped a planned deployment of roughly 4,000 troops to Poland. Sometimes he threatens not to defend Europe against Russia; other times he says he will.” [ NOTE: WHY does Trump almost always favor Russia????? ]
6] “for eight decades, the U.s. built up something as powerful as aircraft carriers and squadrons of F-35s: credibility. Allies believed American commitments would endure from one administration to the next. Adversaries understood that American threats, while sometimes exaggerated, carried real weight.”
***. “In times of crisis, credibility is an American president’s most valuable currency.” [ Anthony Blinken ]
7]. “..there was a broad presumption that the U.S. was a predictable actor and that the president’s words meant something.”
8] “Trump treats promises and threats as if he is playing a grand game of bluff. But unpredictability is a very different thing in an alliance than in a real estate negotiation. If allies cannot know whether troops will arrive or leave, whether tariffs will rise or fall, whether an agreement signed today will survive until tomorrow, they do not become more obedient. They become more independent.”
9]. “Countries are building insurance policies. Denmark chose the Franco-Italian SAMP/T air defense system rather than the American Patriot. Canada is reconsidering its F-35 purchases. European governments are investing heavily in their own arms industries. South Korea has become the second-largest seller of arms to European NATO countries and is helping supply the Gulf’s air defense with systems cheaper than Patriots………..None of these moves by itself amounts to a rupture with Washington. but together, they show a deepening loss of faith in America’s word.”
***. “Trust is built on credibility, and credibility comes from acting in other’s interests before your own.”
[ Stephen Denny ]
{NOTE: The above is just ONE. example. “Your” president, Donald John Trump, has SEVERELY undermined YOUR security in a few months of his second term. he has made the world. FAR. more dangerous. he has – by his rhetoric and actions. – begun to isolate America. – because he has. STUPIDLY. attacked the 1945-2015 alliance system that won World War II, that won the Cold War, that largely kept the peace, that helped build an interconnected world wide trade system. The Trump DICTATORSHIP has NOT “made America great again.” He has done the reverse. – weakened YOUR country in virtually EVERY way possible. His policies have benefitted Russia, benefitted China, will now benefit Iran. Major question for YOU: is Donald John Trump. the REAL “Manchurian Candidate”??? What “kompromat” does Putin have on Trump? THE two most important tests for the democratic fate of the world are Ukraine and Taiwan. What has the Trump DICTATORSHIP done to make sure they aren’t conquered by Russia and China??? ]
