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Oooooooohh Drumpf really going down this time!
For real tho!
The president’s unpredictability once worked to his advantage—but now, it is producing a mounting list of foreign-policy failures.
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"The 'bark orders, impose punishments, and bully friends and enemies into surrender to the mighty, imperial me' approach to foreign policy is unlikely enough to work even when applied to relatively weak states like North Korea and Iran. When simultaneously applied to the entire planet, allies and adversaries alike, it produces only rapidly accelerating failure."
In Trump’s case, the reckoning came especially fast, and for three reasons.
First, because he talked so much and tweeted so much, he revealed much more of himself much earlier than other presidents. His ego, his neediness, his impulsiveness, and the strange irregular cycles of his working day—those were all noted and analyzed before any formal action of his presidency. They were noted not only by leaders, but by electorates—with the result that long before he had decided on what cooperation he wanted from, for example, Australia, his offensive words had limited the ability of Australia’s democratically accountable leaders to cooperate with him.
Second, foreign leaders have concluded that the shortest path to Trump’s heart runs through his wallet. Oil states such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia have rushed to be helpful to the business interests of Donald Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner, seeking an advantage over regional rivals like Qatar. Authoritarian leaders who could hamper Trump-licensed businesses—like Turkey’s Recep Erdogan and Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines—have exploited their perceived leverage, acting with apparent impunity.
Third, Trump’s highly su ious dealings with Russia before the election potentially put him at the mercy of countries in a position to embarrass him. “Ukraine, Seeking U.S. Missiles, Halted Cooperation with Mueller Inquiry,” The New York Times reported earlier in May. The Times report presented Ukraine as a kind of supplicant. “In every possible way, we will avoid irritating that top American officials,” a close ally of President Poroshenko told the paper. But Ukraine had already demonstrated it possessed extremely damaging information about the business affairs of former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort, releasing a ledger of undisclosed payments to him back in the spring of 2016. It’s not quite supplication when the supplicant holds information that the supplicee desperately wishes to keep hidden.
All this is only the beginning. Deficits are rising fast. Military commitments are rising fast. America’s friends are turning their backs fast. (Only 17 percent of South Koreans trust Trump to do the right thing, according to the Pew global surveyin 2017, well before the latest chaos. Obama’s trust rating in South Korea bounced between a low of 75 percent and a high of 88 percent over his presidency.) At a time of relatively low military casualties and strong job growth, the president’s popularity at home roughly matches that of George W. Bush’s during the worst months of the Iraq war, 2005–2006, and Barack Obama’s during the most disappointing months of the weak recovery from the recession of 2009. The president’s options are narrowing even before the midterm elections.
It can only get worse from here for him and—more importantly—for America’s standing in the world under his leadership.
https://www.theatlantic.com/internat...arrives/561209
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Oooooooohh Drumpf really going down this time!
For real tho!
R.I.P. Trump
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Last edited by boutons_deux; 05-24-2018 at 07:52 PM.
oooh Aaron posts another door-bell ringer and runs away. RG is going down this time.
For real tho'
Sure dude. Keep posting things that prove you didn't really read the OP, and talk out your ass. That will show me.
So let me break down the OP a bit more simply.
Trump does not, and probably cannot, hire people good at their jobs, such as foreign policy. Even if he did, his ignorance and inexperience leads him to take actions that have little chance of success.
He has had a year, tried some really bad policies and negotiations, and failed miserably. The consequences of these failures are beginning to come into view.
nope, Repugs won't impeach/convict him
House Dems may impeach him next year, but Senate Repugs won't convict
Meanwhile the oligarchy/Repug destruction of govt will continue full speed.
Trash is comparatively benign, harmless, compared to the toxicity, destructiveness of his oligarchy Exec/cabinet, Repug Congress, oligarchy's SCOTUS5 s
Trash gone, Pence will do nothing to stop the oligarchy, and will sign any Christian supremacy/theocrat Congress hands him. He's just another really, really nasty Catholic Repug asshole
Well, maybe Pompeo asks Hillary for advice again....
I see no reason why this sort of thing couldn't keep happening for another six and a half years.
Coping thread
Me neither
Random op ed from RandomGay.
Content free op-ed from Chris.
no way Deep State turns on Saud or for that matter Israel
The goal is to take out trump not rat on their financiers and masters
Speaking of reckoning
http://thefederalist.com/2018/05/24/...-scares-trump/
Facts don't care about your feelings.
damn. a democrat bashing democrats. your wet dream. kinda like sheriff clarke ting on blm amirite
Hey the guy who whines when he's asked questions about anything he has to think about.
Says the whiny fact free who believes in demonic possession and "alters"
Show me the factual forensic evidence for "alters"
lol "forensic evidence" (what a dummy
It is hilarious to think of any of your re ed ideas bring subjected to sciencelol "forensic evidence" (what a dummy
Lmao how would we verify this exactly?
Factually speaking of course
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