Bach wrote:MeDotOrg wrote:One of the damages the Trump administration's cavalier attitude towards previous agreements is doing to the United States is that countries are increasingly seeing the United States as an unreliable partner, whose policies can flipped on the whims of the President. This points to one of Trump's greatest weaknesses: He lives in the transactional now. He will say whatever it takes to win the moment, without thinking of the long term consequences.
There is so much ignorance, binder vision and naïveness in this statement one wonders where to start. I certainly don't have the posting time as everyone else here but ——. One might want to start with where Obama policy took us w allies and partners arounnd the world. Putin and the Ayaltolla played Obama like a fiddle. All world leaders knew he was a pussy and lacked any real world experience. And all world leaders saw his courage and resolve when he drew the “infamous chemical weapon red line in Syria”. But he made up for it with billions in cash to Iran!!
Please get an education (as I doubt you have any experience) in understanding the concept of dealing from strength (including fear) as opposed to “bowing for friendship” as our former “no balls” prez was very pathetically successful in doing.
The defense starts with a 'whataboutism' about Obama? We're discussing Trump riffing American foreign policy on the fly. I repeat: his weakness is his need to win in the transactional now.
"Billions of cash to Iran"? I assume means the unfreezing of Iranian assets? Perhaps you could help me with a little more information.
I would also point out that Trump's foreign policy towards Russia shows a distinct lack of what you might refer to as testicularity. And with reference to Obama's line in the sand, I agree. Obama put it out there without backing it up with consequences. That damaged American credibility.
On March 18th The Washington Post wrote:The Trump administration maintains that it won’t tolerate chemical weapons attacks by Bashar al-Assad’s regime and its partners in Syria, despite reported widespread use of chlorine gas, along with credible reports of the nerve agent sarin. But there’s no real plan to stop these war crimes, and America’s credibility is on the line.
As the Syrian war enters its eighth year, national security adviser H.R. McMaster called Thursday for punishing Moscow and Tehran for their part in ongoing atrocities in Syria. Such actions, he suggested, should have serious political and economic consequences.
“All civilized nations must hold Iran and Russia accountable for their role in enabling atrocities and perpetuating human suffering in Syria,” McMaster said at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. “Assad should not have impunity for his crimes, and neither should his sponsors,” he continued.
Trump bombed in the early part of his Presidency. H.R. McMaster just resigned, to be replaced by John Bolton. It feels like Trump is building a funeral pyre.