America no longer a world leader



Trump's ex-Russia adviser Fiona Hill: US increasingly seen as 'object of pity'


Updated 3:02 PM ET, Tue September 22, 2020

(CNN) - President Donald Trump's former top Russia adviser said Tuesday that the United States is increasingly seen as "an object of pity" and its standing on the world stage is eroding.

"We are increasingly seen as an object of pity, including by our allies, because they are so shocked by what's happening internally, how we're eating ourselves alive with our divisions," Fiona Hill, who was a witness in the Trump impeachment hearings, told CNN's Jim Sciutto on Tuesday during the Citizen by CNN 2020 conference. "We're the ones who are creating all this. It's not the Russians or the Chinese or anyone else. We are doing this to ourselves."

Asked whether the US is still seen as a model, Hill replied, "Unless we get our domestic act together, no."

Her comments come on the heels of a recent Pew Research Center survey among 13 nations that found America's reputation has declined further over the past year among its key allies, with part of the decline linked to the United States' response to the coronavirus pandemic.

"What is really eroding our standing is what people are seeing happening here in the United States," Hill, who was a national security adviser until she left the administration last summer, told CNN on Tuesday.

She said it's the "bungled handling of Covid, on top of race relations, on top of our political polarization and the spectacles that we're presenting to the outside world is what's really pushing all of this."

Hill said it would be "difficult" for NATO to survive under a second term of President Donald Trump, adding that the US needs to "revitalize our commitment to NATO."

"Right now, most of our closest allies, not just partners and other major players, do not see the United States as leading. They see us as quite the contrary, as being so consumed with domestic problems that we really can't do anything very much at all," she said.

During congressional hearings in the 2019 impeachment inquiry, Hill warned that the Republican defense of the President -- by peddling Ukraine conspiracy theories -- was in danger of extending Russia's meddling in the 2016 US presidential election.

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When America was "great"

Chaos has always been Trump's method. Unfortunately people have allowed him to do it at a national level. Trump isn't qualified to be the mayor of a small town and yet we went and elected him ruler of the free world.



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I was right.

History will look back at 45 and wonder WTF?



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If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC - KV

CNN...seriously?

WOW!

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The REAL truth is....both of the forum idiots are OWNED.
-BOTH of them have no clue who their owner is.
-They are both card carrying narcissists.
^These are PROVED facts.

Imagine Trump running NYC?

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I was right.

Yeah...there would be 10,000 less deaths!

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The REAL truth is....both of the forum idiots are OWNED.
-BOTH of them have no clue who their owner is.
-They are both card carrying narcissists.
^These are PROVED facts.

Imagine Trump running Charlotte or another little city.

He couldn't do it. And you elected him to be ruler of the free world.

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I was right.

Trump...

2020...

DONE!

Bwahahaha!

FACT!

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The REAL truth is....both of the forum idiots are OWNED.
-BOTH of them have no clue who their owner is.
-They are both card carrying narcissists.
^These are PROVED facts.