Can you name one (1) country that has improved their relationship with the USA or the USA has improved relations with in the last 7 years??

And the Pithy Award for June 14th, 2016 goes to ... LTC (Join to see)!

MSG (Join to see) - Thank you... I will prepare my acceptance speech and deliver it this evening at the local watering hole.

I guess President Kenyatta is grateful for the behind-the-scenes help that the administration played in getting the five counts of crimes against humanity dropped in the International Criminal Court in the Hague.
I don't know if this qualifies as a win. That was pretty nasty business.
Probably not what you were referring to, though LTC (Join to see)

1SG (Join to see) - I'm guessing that the tourist business has improved significantly in one village in Kenya.

1SG (Join to see) - I've never been to Okinawa and that place has a very different relationship with America and its military.

The improvement I see is in business cooperation, student exchanges and just the way that I am treated wherever I go in Japan as an American.

It helps that I speak Japanese, but where 20-years-ago I got stares on the subway and the silent treatment in bars, today I feel more welcome in a Tokyo bar or Osaka cafe than I do in much of the US.

Sgt Steven Thomas - Huh?

Travel the world and say you like Donald Trump and it's not silence you will get, but ridicule.

Sgt Steven Thomas - Oh thank you so much for your incredible insight.

I think its rather because I tend to talk to educated people who follow world events, rather than nativists, isolationists, xenophobes and the like.

Sgt Steven Thomas - Not all photographers are liberal.

Why shouldn't they? Even police officers are paid to protect the citizens in their jurisdiction.

I thought we had pulled out of Chicago in order for the proxy govt there to stand up on its own.

SPC Kirk Gilles - LOL, you got my warped humor

The Iranians are still chanting death to America, took Navy personnel hostage, and sponsor terrorism. Our relationship with the Philippines has been good for decades. Vietnam? Liberia? There is no change, just political speak. Cuba there is no difference their government still hates us...

SSG Pete Fleming - In the case of Cuba and Iran, we are talking and that is an improvement in relations, if not in quality. The Philippines recently signed agreements to reopen Subic Bay and to a lesser extent other facilities to US forces after unceremoniously ending the relationship in the '90s. Vietnam has recently signed trade and security agreements with the US. Liberia is grateful for our assistance during the Ebola outbreak there last year.
I am not a fan of our current foreign policy (honestly scratching my head most of the time) but to say there has been no improvements to bilateral relationships would not be true.

1SG (Join to see) - And how has any of these benefited the USA? Iran is still chanting death to America, Vietnam still has the bodies of MIA service members. Just because we helped with an Ebola outbreak doesn't mean a relationship is better, we helped Haiti and many other nations and things are no different. I don't see any real gain in any of those. Trade relations are one sided, the deals don't favor American interests.

SSG Pete Fleming - The question wasn't did the improvement serve the interests of the United States, the question was can you name one country that has improved relations with the Unites States in the past seven years. The answer is yes.
Vagaries and nuance within individual deals aside, how is signing a bilateral trade agreement automatically a loser for the US? Chances are decent that the smaller trading partner benefits more monetarily due to reductions in trade barriers and tariffs, but the opening of new markets for US companies is a winner as well. Some deals are better than others.
As for Liberia, the efforts made on our behalf to help them combat ebola translated into access to military facilities and cooperation with us and the French dealing with Al Queda in the Magreb and Boko Haram.
Iran remains to be seen, but I like many am not optimistic.
Cuba is frankly a mystery to me why we simply broke policy of decades. That one will take awhile to earn back trust.

We didn't "improve" relations with Cuba. We just chucked our principles out the window so that President Obama could claim some kind of legacy. Cuba still hates us and has done nothing in return

We have always had good relations with the Philippines, sometimes better than others but it is no different now that it was 7 years ago

Our ties with their military are greater now.

I read today that under Venezuela rules, if Maduro was voted out then only his VP can assume control not any rival. Keeps the Party in charge.