Will the world be more or less peaceful with Trump in power?

[Pemalite]

shavenferret said:

Pemalite said:

Nothing will change.
Trump like all presidents are more or less beholden to what congress pushes and the politics on the world stage.

The fear that any president will "destroy America" is pretty baseless, that claim has been thrown around for centuries, it's simply politics.
Plus Trump doesn't have a good track record, he couldn't even build a wall to keep illegal immigrants out during his term like he promised, yet blamed illegal immigrants on the Democrats. - If Trump did his job it would be a non-issue to start with.

And whatever big policies Trump pushes during his term, will just get undone with the next democrat who comes to power if it doesn't work. See: Obama care.

In saying that, I am going to enjoy the drama that comes out of the Trump administration, the last time he was in power it was great and free entertainment, the world took the USA less seriously, but it definitely was good entertainment.

Regardless, Europe is worried about Trump and his lack of support for Ukraine.  They are also worried what this could mean for the political landscape of Europe.  Will there be an underhanded deal with Putin?  will Trump give NATO a hard time?

Europe has gone through multiple "world wars". They survived those, they will survive this.
Europe doesn't actually need the USA to deal with Russia, it definitely helps, but it's not a requirement.

In saying that, when Trump was elected last time, not much changed on the allegiance front, he is only in power for a short time and then he is gone, so any real change will be non-existent.

The only real gamble is what will happen to Ukraine, if Trump pulls all support, then Russia gains more land, more economic weight, more population, more resources... And that may give China the "balls" to take on Taiwan if the USA is seen as a pushover.

Remember when the USA was being "isolationist" last and tried to stay out of Europe's wars, just like how Trump is now... Pearl Harbor ended up being bombed, thousands of American lives lost, seems that history lesson has not sunk in with Trump.

It was also Russia, The United States and The United Kingdom fault this war occurred as well, when we asked Ukraine to give up it's Nuclear deterrent with the promise of allowing their freedom and independence, that backfired.