[mg794613]

Being allies really doesn't mean anything anymore, does it?

I really wonder how long it will take to rebuild all these burned bridges.

[loeg]

What does allies have to do with this situation? Both aircraft involved were American.

[arianvanp]

Happened in Dutch Caribbean controlled Airspace

[lawn]

Will the US ever get back to where they were, as the world's only superpower and "world police"?

I just don't see how we're going back.

[bjord]

unlikely, at least not during this generation. even putting aside the current admin, the US has (to put it extremely lightly) long failed to police its own and certain "allies'" behavior, which undermines the concept altogether.

at this point, there are unfortunately no "good guys" at the state level.

[adrr]

Someone has to prevent the execution of journalist who speak out against the regime and that has no due process and also have highest execution rate of any country. They labeled "Authoritarian state" by Amnesty International and Humans Rights Watch and "Systemic human-rights violator" by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Oh wait, i mixed up Saudi Arabia one of the US's closets allies with Venezuela.

[bjord]

generations

[stronglikedan]

meh, bridges get constantly burned and rebuilt between allies and enemies both - just another day really

[mna_]

If a bridge gets built then destroyed, built then destroyed, built then destroyed and so on, people will stop using it. They'll also stop trusting the bridge builder.

[ceejayoz]

You run into trouble if someone manages to set all of them on fire at once.

[InsideOutSanta]

People all over the world are already building new bridges to places like China, so even if the old ones are rebuilt, they might get substantially less use.