No need to worry when politicians feel lonely. They will just give themselves an award, a bonus, or a holiday trip to Hawaii.
14 April 2023 - Top economist frets that US is getting ‘lonely’
Former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers has warned that America is losing global influence as other powers form trading blocs
Summers, a former World Bank chief economist who was an adviser to President Barack Obama and served as treasury secretary under Bill Clinton, suggested that US tactics have alienated some governments. “Somebody from a developing country said to me, ‘What we get from China is an airport. What we get from the United States is a lecture. We like your values better than we like theirs, but we like airports more than we like lectures.’”
13 July 2023 - America First, America Hated, America Alone
What does all this achieve?
No doubt just what Trump intends: the collapse of the liberal international order, both in its animating commitment to open societies as well as its defining international institutions — the G-7, NATO, the European Union, the World Trade Organization. Seen in this light, the president’s wretched behavior isn’t — or isn’t merely — the product of a defective personality. It’s the result of a willful ideology.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/13/opinion/america-first-america-hated-america-alone.html