This was written in February 2017, the first full month of the Trump presidency:
If Trump were the Manchurian candidate that people keep wanting to believe that he is, here are some of the things he’d be doing:
- Limiting fracking as much as he possibly could
- Blocking oil and gas pipelines
- Opening negotiations for major nuclear arms reductions
- Cutting U.S. military spending
- Trying to tamp down tensions with Russia’s ally Iran
That Trump is planning to do precisely the opposite of these things may or may not be good policy for the United States, but anybody who thinks this is a Russia appeasement policy has been drinking way too much joy juice.
These aren't a bad standard by which to judge the current president, who has already failed #1, 2, and 5. There's still time for him to get it right, though, but given his supporters, I doubt he'll do so.
Update, 1/23/21: Today I read that he's now failed #3.
This demonstrates such a fundamental misunderstanding of the CCP's geopolitical goals and ambitions, as well as how the Trump administration's incompetence and nationalism helped those goals along, that it's barely worth addressing.
ReplyDeleteCome now, Sam, do it anyway. Tell me all about the CCP's (and the Russians') geopolitical goals and ambitions. Justify them, even.
ReplyDeleteSeriously Sam, I'm under the same misunderstanding, please enlighten us.
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