C_Clayton_Jones
Diamond Member
“Many Americans, myself included, support overhauling the sclerotic national security consensus that has governed our policies since Sept. 11, 2001. Yet it would be wrong to dismiss Mr. Trump’s dizzying array of pronouncements and executive actions on foreign policy as simply the fulfillment of his campaign promises. He did not run on the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D., the conquest of Greenland or the occupation of Gaza. Rather than showing strength, his foreign policy betrays a loss of American self-confidence and self-respect, eliminating any pretense that the United States stands for the things it has claimed to support since fighting two world wars: freedom, self-determination and collective security.
In many ways, Mr. Trump cuts a more familiar picture from history: an aging strongman musing about territorial expansion to consolidate power and cement his legacy. At best, this kind of foreign policy will help shape an international order reformed in opposition to American excess; at worst, it could accelerate a global trend toward disorder and great-power conflict.”
First, ‘America’ didn’t elect Trump – Trump was elected by the frightened and stupid, by those so willfully ignorant as to not believe a second Trump term would be as much a failure as his first.
Second, this is the Trump who was elected – a fascist wannabe despot and dictator with contempt for the rule of law, our democratic institutions, and the Constitution; someone who would seek to dismantle U.S.A.I.D., conquer Greenland, and occupy Gaza.
In many ways, Mr. Trump cuts a more familiar picture from history: an aging strongman musing about territorial expansion to consolidate power and cement his legacy. At best, this kind of foreign policy will help shape an international order reformed in opposition to American excess; at worst, it could accelerate a global trend toward disorder and great-power conflict.”
First, ‘America’ didn’t elect Trump – Trump was elected by the frightened and stupid, by those so willfully ignorant as to not believe a second Trump term would be as much a failure as his first.
Second, this is the Trump who was elected – a fascist wannabe despot and dictator with contempt for the rule of law, our democratic institutions, and the Constitution; someone who would seek to dismantle U.S.A.I.D., conquer Greenland, and occupy Gaza.