What is the US 100-year accomplishment that Trump withdrew to pieces in the last four years?

Finally came one day ahead. Now, on January 20th, US President Donald Trump withdraws and Joe Biden takes office.

There is only one day left in office, but the United States and the world cannot take their eyes off President Trump. It’s because you don’t know what you’re going to do or destroy with that great power. Unpredictability and unpredictable ability or values ​​are the hallmarks of Trump throughout his tenure. This is by no means a leader’s virtue.

The scars that President Trump left in the United States are endless. Trump is the right person to say that there has been no such president until now. He rejected the obvious election results and argued for conspiracy theories, not enough to incite division, anger, and hatred, and challenge the constitution and legal system. It is a self-harm act that undermines the democratic system and procedure of the United States that made him president. The world-class brands’USA’ and’democracy system’ were challenged and ridiculed by Trump. It is a self-profit that left the federal Senate’s impeachment hearing on the 13th following the approval of the federal House of Representatives’ impeachment bill on the charges of inciting supporters to invade the Federal Capitol on the 6th.

Trump didn’t stop at the United States. Trump also tried to disrupt the international order that the United States created in the 20th century. The United States’ status in the international community has fallen to hell with Trump’s words and actions. In the process, it drove the international politics mega brand’US’ into a crash crisis.
Even if Trump leaves, the pain that the international community suffered during his tenure will remain trauma. This is expected to be difficult to restore easily. CNN had a gloomy outlook that “it will take decades to restore confidence in Europe, which (Trump) is in the trash.” It is a post-storm after Trump insults NATO allies, mostly European countries, as debtors, and unilaterally withdraws from the Iranian Nuclear Agreement (JCPOA) with Europe and the Paris Climate Change Agreement in partnership with the world. Now is the turn of the international bills for Trump’s actions.
It will not be easy to measure the value of the’American’ brand that Trump has driven right before his fall during his tenure. But you can look at it indirectly by looking at how much the United States spent over the last century or so to build its brand and emerge as a global hegemony. How on earth was the hegemony of the United States and the international order that Trump shaken up?

Indeed, the United States was a de facto isolated state until the early 20th century. The United States has been isolated for a long time since President James Monroe (1758-1831, 1817-25 years in office) advocated Monroe’s diplomacy in 1823, “The United States should not intervene in European affairs and Europe should not interfere with the Americas. The state’s diplomacy was unfolded. At the time, the UK was a global hegemony. However, in the past 100 years or so, the United States has grown its national power, increased and increased its involvement in the world’s work, and the Soviet Union collapsed, eventually becoming the only global hegemony.
In this process, the United States in particular worked hard to lead Europe into a democratic alliance. In World War I (1914-1918), the United States destroyed the German Empire, its allies, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the Ottoman-Turk Empire, a multi-ethnic despotism. President Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924, in office 1913-1921), who decided the United States to participate in the war in 1917 and participated in the post-war Versailles talks, introduced the principle of’national self-determination’. The victorious allied forces dismantled these two empires, which were multi-ethnic nations, and tore and divide them in accordance with the’conceptual’ concept of the nation. The borders created so far remain in Central and Eastern Europe, including the Balkans, and most of the Middle East and North Africa. With the participation in the First World War, the United States became an actor in the international community in earnest.

In World War II, the U.S. was in arms and food until the end of the war in 1945 under the Rends and Lease Act (the Arms Loan Act) signed by President Franklin Roosevelt (1882-1945, in office 1933-1945) in March 1941. Provided fuel and supplies to the Allied Powers. At the time, it offered $50.1 billion in prices, including $31.4 billion to the UK, $11.3 billion to the Soviet Union, $3.2 billion to Free France, $1.6 billion to the Republic of China, and $2.6 billion to other Allies. It is a huge sum of $575 billion in value in 2019. It amounts to 17% of the total US expenditure in World War II.

In March 1937, the United States established the principle that “The United States shall self-isolate against the prevalence of the world’s lawless situation” through Roosevelt’s so-called’quarantine speech’. However, on September 11, 1941, when the US Navy destroyer Greer was attacked by a torpedo by a German submarine in the Atlantic Ocean, Roosevelt ordered to’shoot as soon as it is seen’ and entered a practical battle.
Then, on December 7, the Japanese Navy attacked Pearl Harbor and declared war on Japan.After a few hours later, when President Adolf Hitler of Germany, an ally with Japan, declared war on the United States on the 11th, the United States also declared war on Germany and officially warned. Went into
The United States, which fought in World War II, became the core of the war, mobilizing 16.11 million troops. As a result of participating in World War II, the United States destroyed Nazism in Germany, Fascism in Italy, and militarism, and built a new post-war world.

The United States fought the Cold War against the Soviet-centered communist world after the war. The United States operated the Marshall Plan under the Foreign Assistance Act signed and entered into force on April 3, 1948, after the end of World War II by President Harry Truman (1884-1972, in office 1945-1953). Over four years, it has invested $13 billion ($130 billion (approximately 143 trillion won) in Western Europe in 2016. The Marshall Plan is a project that helps Western Europe recover and revitalize the post-war period with large-scale economic aid. Maintaining an edge could lead to the collapse of the Soviet Union in the Cold War, which can be seen as the initial cost of the US to make Western Europe an alliance.

On April 4, 1949, President Truman established the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a collective defense system that protects the free world of North America and Europe from the communist world. Based on this, the United States led the Soviet Union and arms race to victory.
The Cold War wasn’t cold. It was also progressed as a heat battle and made a huge sacrifice. These are the Korean War (1950-1953) and Vietnam War (1955-1975). The US defended the Republic of Korea, but in Vietnam it could not. However, the Cold War ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1991. After winning the Cold War and overthrowing the Soviet Union, the United States has become the only dominant nation in the world. NATO, which lost its enemies, survived as a value alliance protecting democracy and market economy. The NATO regime also played a useful role in the process of the United States fighting terrorism.

The cost of the United States in this series of processes was enormous. Enormous sacrifices and resources were invested in military sacrifices, military spending, economic aid, maintenance of soft power and exports. Roughly calculated, the process of securing hegemony took a number of aid and support funds, including more than 600,000 dead, more than 6,724.9 billion dollars, and 130 billion dollars for the Marshall Plan.
Based on data from the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the US Congressional Research Service (CRS), we calculated the cost for the US to secure hegemony and create the US brand.
First is human loss. According to data from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, the number of Americans killed 11,516 in World War I (1917-1918 in the U.S.), 4,05399 in World War II (1941-1946), and the Korean War (1950-1953). 36,574 in Vietnam, 58,220 in Vietnam (1964-1973), 2586 in Gulf War (1990-1991), 2349 in Afghanistan (2001-2014), Iraq (2003-2010) In total, 4,418 people, etc., reached 600,000. Some countries, such as the Soviet Union and China, have sacrificed more than 10 million people during World War II. However, except for the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States is a war that has been fought in a state where many US territories are not directly attacked. In the process of countering the despotism, Nazism, fascism, militarism, communism, and terrorist forces, not national defense, 600,000 soldiers were killed.

The warfare the United States put into these wars is truly astronomical. According to data from the U.S. Congressional Research Service (CRS), the prices at that time were $20 billion in World War I ($34.4 billion in 2011), $296 billion in World War II ($4.14 trillion), and $30 billion in the Korean War. ($341 billion), and spent $110 billion ($7380 billion) in Vietnam. They spent $61 billion ($102 billion) in the Gulf War, $715 billion ($784 billion) in Iraq, and $297 billion ($32 billion) in Afghanistan. In the war that the United States fought in after World War I, the amount of warfare in 2011 was $6.724 trillion (about 7400 trillion won).
In 2020, the estimated gross domestic product (GDP) of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is US$ 20.807.2 billion, China is 14.8607 trillion US dollars, Japan is 4.910.5 trillion US dollars, and Germany is 3.780.5 trillion US dollars. , The UK is 2.6382 trillion dollars. The timing of estimating values ​​is a little different, but comparing this statistic gives you a sense of how much the war costs the United States spent before it became a hegemonic state. For reference, Korea’s GDP in 2020 is $1.586.7 billion.

However, Trump ignored this historical context and the sacrifices and costs and listened only to the complaints of voters who immediately filmed him. At a series of NATO summit meetings, it refused to reaffirm its collective security commitment, threatening member states to comply with the guidelines to spend 2% of gross domestic product (GDP) on military expenditures. Trump left the image of a debt collector, who is no longer a global leader, in the international community. He withdrew from the Paris Climate Agreement, which was jointly promised not only with Western Europe, but also with the world, with an unscientific climate change conspiracy theory. Some claims that it was an agreement led by former President Barack Obama sounded convincing. The image of the United States, which has been leading global science and technology, was inevitably undermined as the ridiculous words of’climate change is a lie’ came from the mouth of the president of a global hegemonic country.

Trump unilaterally withdrew from the Iran Nuclear Agreement (JCPOA), which was led by Western Europe and promised to Russia and China in the days of his predecessor Obama for various reasons. It appears to be a result of reflecting the views and demands of some supporters who are more emotional than national interests. Withdrawal from the agreement, Trump further moved away from his ally Western Europe.

Trump also shook seven major countries (G7) that started with the G6 in 1975 at the suggestion of French President Valery Giscardestin (1926-2020, in office 1974-1981). At the 2017 Sicily Summit in Italy, he rode a golf cart alone in opposition to the climate agreement. In 2018, despite the persuasion of the leaders of other member states, he refused a joint statement on free trade and left the conference alone. Trump has always been alone in the international community, and Trump has defied America’s status in the international community endlessly. In the Trump era, G& literally had to do a “trial march”. International relations in this era would be best suited for the expression “random”. As the G7 became like this, only Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping, who had been under checks from the West, laughed.

On the 20th, the ball now goes to the new President Joe Biden. Biden, a former U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Chairman, was tasked with restoring Western Europe, which had been America’s greatest alliance and then despaired by Trump, as a friend of the United States. Biden is a person who will reduce its value more than anyone else. Biden’s diplomacy will have no choice but to put weight on overcoming the Trump trauma and re-establishing American brand, role, and trust in the international community. .
CNN thinks that Europe was “stuck in a trash can” when Trump was in power, but that time was also an opportunity to walk on a “free and independent path” to Europe. It could be a motive for establishing an independent relationship out of the alliance system with the United States.
It became Biden’s responsibility to stop this and keep Europe as an alliance of the United States. Just as Trump clarified his color in the ABO (Anything But Obama) policy that abolished his predecessor Obama’s policy, Biden was the ABT (Anything But Trump) that reversed Trump’s policy. It seems likely that the strategy will be presented.
In this process, re-establishment of relations with Europe could rise to the top of Biden’s diplomacy. We will try to pay attention to Asia including Korea, Japan, India, China, and the Middle East such as Israel and Iran, but we cannot ignore the possibility of being pushed out of the top priority. It is a nightmare for Biden that it takes decades to recover relations with Europe, an important alliance, as CNN’s prospects.

In-Taek Chae International Reporter [email protected]