Trump Foreign Policy

[Danny Bateman]

 

Is he asleep?!

[NM11046]

Come on now - you know nobody understands Italian like he does.

[commando]

 

Is he asleep?!

yes....he does appear to be napping. but it is the most bigly nappy time ever

[whateveritis1224]

 

 

Is he asleep?!

yes....he does appear to be napping. but it is the most bigly nappy time ever

 

He has the most stamina. He's the hardest working president ever.

[zoogs]

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/335620-trump-administration-close-to-finishing-review-of-cuba-policy-report

 

“We’re getting closer,” one official told the news outlet.

Trump during his presidential campaign said he would reverse “concessions towards Cuba until freedoms are restored.” After winning the election in November, he said he would terminate the deal if Cuba did not want to commit to “a better deal.”

Meanwhile, Trump gushes about Duterte (still silent over Philippines bodyguards assaulting Americans on our own soil?), Saudi Arabia, and inks a huge arms deal with the latter.

 

"Freedoms". So important.

[Moiraine]

The further along we get into this experiment-gone-wrong, the more I am certain that Trump's policy on everything is to do the opposite of what has been done, because there is no possible way in his mind that we could be doing anything correctly right now.

 

Especially not the things that were initiated while Obama was president.

[BigRedBuster]

Oh my frighten Lord!!!!!

 

This is getting comical.

 

What was that he used to say about Hillary and poor judgment with classified information????

 

[Danny Bateman]

It's a dangerous trifecta right now.

1. Trump's policies consist solely of undoing anything Obama did, projecting strength with an authoritarian bent & trying to benefit himself as much as possible.

 

2. The Congressional GOP are actually the ones behind the steering wheel, and the leader of their party is too lazy and unwilling to actually study up and figure out what they're doing. So he just slaps an "It's tremendous, the best" bumper sticker on it and goes along for the ride.

3. The people surrounding him either want to push that same GOP agenda (Pence), stick it to everyone (Bannon), benefit financially (Kushner) or seize more power (underlings).

But none of them have any vested interest in stopping him. At all.

[Danny Bateman]

Oh my frighten Lord!!!!!

 

This is getting comical.

 

What was that he used to say about Hillary and poor judgment with classified information????

 

 

The incredible irony beginning at 1:32 speaks for itself.

 

[Danny Bateman]

[knapplc]

Where's the outrage? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[QMany]

[TGHusker]

This guy gets it right. Bluster isn't foreign policy.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/forget-trumps-bluster-world-walking-090001198.html

 

some quotes:

President Trump woke up incensed Tuesday morning, apparently because after he finally got through lecturing European leaders about how they had to take more responsibility for themselves, Germany’s chancellor had the audacity to suggest that European countries should take more responsibility for themselves.

“The times when we could rely on others have passed us by a little bit,” was Angela Merkel’s takeaway from her most recent meeting with Trump. She said European powers “needed to take our fate into our own hands,” which prompted Trump to fire off an angry tweet assailing the trade gap with Germany and vowing to make the country spend more on defense.

Because what we really need are fewer BMWs manufactured in South Carolina and more of a German military presence in Europe. That’s always worked out great before.

But really, all this focus on Trump’s tweets and the stories about his boorishness abroad should please the White House no end. The more the narrative focuses on Trump’s toughness and bluster with our allies, the less anyone focuses on what’s really been exposed in these opening months of his presidency.

Trump is weak, and our rivals have figured it out. They’re walking all over the American president in a way we haven’t seen since at least the days of disco and Space Invaders.

 

 

You can bet that Erdogan had been watching the way Trump handled Vladimir Putin, after Russian planes and subs showed up to menace the coasts off Alaska and Connecticut. A stronger leader might have politely put the Russians on notice that we take our borders seriously, and the next Russian pilot who wandered into our airspace might not be coming home.

Putin was testing Trump, just trying to see how hard he’d be able to push the man whose campaign he so deftly played to his advantage. About as far as you like — that was the answer.

Then there’s Kim Jong Un, who’s setting off a new rocket every week now, boasting about his intention to reach American targets. He’s already concluded that Trump will leave that whole Korean headache to the Chinese, as long as no one’s conspiring to hit us with more decent, reasonably priced hatchbacks.

Why are Trump’s competitors so confident they can brush him aside? Probably they can see that he doesn’t have much grasp of world affairs, or a ton of interest. Maybe they imagine he’s too preoccupied with controversy back home to get himself into any global standoffs.

But the better explanation is that other world leaders can sense something essential about Trump. The one thing they share is probably an innate ability to size people up. You don’t get to the top of any political system, large or small, without a shrewd eye for what drives human behavior.

And what they see in Trump is insecurity. The carrying on about his ratings and poll numbers, the impulsive tweets on a sleepless night, the childlike boasts and pleading diatribes — all of it betrays a need to be loved, rather than feared.

 

 

But the pressing danger here isn’t that Trump — and, by extension, American leadership — gets eclipsed. It’s that Trump’s passivity in the face of petty aggression almost certainly invites a more consequential variety.

It’s one thing for the Russians to have poked our border patrol with no response. But what happens when their troops are crossing the border of a Baltic nation instead, because Putin figures no one will stop him? What happens when North Korea finally gets a rocket to Guam — because, you know, why not?

Indifference toward aggression has never spared America from war. And irate tweets have never ended one.

[TGHusker]

Oh my frighten Lord!!!!!

 

This is getting comical.

 

What was that he used to say about Hillary and poor judgment with classified information????

 

unbelievable

[zoogs]

Totally believable, that's the thing. It always was.