

It’s not just Trump that cedes the global economic leadership of USA, it’s the American population, they did that when they voted MAGA in 2016, and they put the final nail in the coffin when they reelected Trump in 2024.
The MAGA ideology was always disrespect for allies and partners. Tearing up all sorts of agreements including trade agreements and regarding security where Trump already during his first time used rhetoric about how NATO was obsolete. And a constant messaging on how the world needs USA more than USA needs the world.
So Americans chose to pull away and cede leadership both economic and and on defense.
This ideology has permeated the GOP since Bush the older became President, heck it had already started with Reagan.
This is not an isolated problem that suddenly happened January last year. This is a trend that USA has taken as a people for many decades.
Of course there are both good and smart people in USA, and they are not the ones that are driving the destructive mentality of the people as a whole. But unfortunately the stupid and malignant people of USA have taken over. And they have done that repeatedly, electing worse and worse candidates. Now to a point where a lot of the damage they are doing is irreversible.


Maybe such agreements are easier to make between EU and India now that UK is no-longer a member of EU?
India still has a significant grudge against UK from colonial times. Despite EU and UK has abandoned the colonial tendencies, and now work for a world based on international law.
I get so sad every time I see India side with Russia and China claiming they are not colonial powers, and they respect the independence of India, despite India has a territorial dispute with China! But they claim siding with Russia is better because India needs independence.
Although Europe and UK absolutely fully respect and even to some degree help protect the independence of India. USA on the other hand has now become a complete wild card, impossible to know which side they choose, because the administration is so corrupt they choose decidedly and openly to act against US interests to line their own pockets.