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Trump Doesn’t Believe in His Own Foreign Policy. Does That Matter?

here have been a great many odd things about the first year of Donald Trump’s presidency, but one of the oddest is the vast distance that has opened up between the president and his own policies. Presidents never fully get their way on the entire range of foreign policy issues their administrations confront, although they do tend to get their way on the issues they care most about. But as I discuss in my new book, American Grand Strategy in the Age of Trump, this president’s core geopolitical beliefs and the foreign policy executed in his name have in several cases seemed 180 degrees apart.

The president clearly loathes NATO and believes that protecting the European allies is a fool’s errand, yet his administration has continued and even expanded efforts to reinforce deterrence along NATO’s eastern flank. He has repeatedly called for a new relationship with Russia, but his administration has now decided to sell lethal defensive weaponry to Ukraine, and is taking initial steps to develop a land-based, intermediate-range nuclear delivery system to counter Russian violations of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty.

http://foreignpolicy.com/2018/01/16/trump-doesnt-believe-in-his-own-fo
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Originally posted by 1kiki:
Is the US bombing people around the globe? No. Then, so far, Trump did something smarter than Obama, Bush, and Clinton put together.

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https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2017-12-19/counterrorism
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'US counter terror air strikes doubled in Trump’s first year"

"The number of US air strikes jumped in Yemen and Somalia in 2017, pointing to an escalation of the global war on terror.

President Donald Trump inherited the framework allowing US aircraft to hit suspected terrorists outside of declared battlefields from his predecessor, Barack Obama. Bar some tinkering, his administration has largely stuck within the framework set by the previous one.

However, the quantity of operations has shot up under President Trump. Strikes doubled in Somalia and tripled in Yemen.

In Afghanistan, where the Bureau has been monitoring US airstrikes since it was officially declared a noncombat mission at the end of 2014, the number of weapons dropped is now approaching levels last seen during the 2009-2012 surge."

http://www.newsweek.com/trump-has-already-killed-more-civilians-obama-
us-fight-against-isis-653564

"The U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) has killed more civilians during President Donald Trump's first seven months in office than in the three years it existed under his predecessor, according to the latest estimate by a U.K.-based monitor.

Meanwhile, there are signs that the drone war may be returning to Pakistan, where attacks were also up, compared with 2016."

http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-is-ordering-airstrikes-at-5-times
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"Trump is ordering airstrikes at 5 times the pace Obama did

US airstrikes in eastern Yemen over the weekend targeted Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, continuing the effort to disrupt "a terror organization that presents a very significant threat to the" US, a Navy spokesman said on Monday.

The weekend strikes, reportedly about 20 in total and mostly unmanned, brings the total against AQAP since February 28 to 70.

All told, Trump has ordered 75 drone strikes or raids in non-battlefield settings during his first 74 days in office, according to Micah Zenko, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations."

http://www.newsweek.com/trumps-presidency-only-10-months-old-and-new-d
ata-his-airstrikes-alarm-684084

When President Donald Trump took office in January, it was unclear whether the bombast from his campaign would translate into an aggressive new strategy against terrorism. At campaign rallies he pledged to “bomb the hell” out of the Islamic State militant group (ISIS). He openly mused about killing the families of terrorists, a blatant violation of the Geneva Conventions, which prohibits violence against noncombatants.

Ten months into his presidency, a clearer picture is emerging. The data indicate several alarming trends.

According to research from the nonprofit monitoring group Airwars, the first seven months of the Trump administration have already resulted in more civilian deaths than under the entirety of the Obama administration. Airwars reports that under Obama’s leadership, the fight against ISIS led to approximately 2,300 to 3,400 civilian deaths. Through the first seven months of the Trump administration, they estimate that coalition air strikes have killed between 2,800 and 4,500 civilians.

Researchers also point to another stunning trend—the “frequent killing of entire families in likely coalition airstrikes.” In May, for example, such actions led to the deaths of at least 57 women and 52 children in Iraq and Syria.

The vast increase in civilian deaths is not limited to the anti-ISIS campaign. In Afghanistan, the U.N. reports a 67 percent increase in civilian deaths from U.S. airstrikes in the first six months of 2017 compared to the first half of 2016."


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kiki is always long on propaganda and short on facts.


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Originally posted by G:

That's only seven months, not Trump's whole first year. To think that this guy isn't going to play with his new toys after everything he's said and asked about nukes is a pretty amazing bit of not thinking.

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Originally posted by second:
Trump demands Russia probe end 'right now'. He said on Aug 1, 2018 that Attorney General Jeff Sessions must halt the inquiry into alleged election meddling. His remarks are notable because he himself has previously acknowledged the US Department of Justice should be free from political interference. Trump is stupid.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45026754

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Trump demands Russia probe end 'right now'. He said on Aug 1, 2018 that Attorney General Jeff Sessions must halt the inquiry into alleged election meddling. His remarks are notable because he himself has previously acknowledged the US Department of Justice should be free from political interference. Trump is stupid.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45026754

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Is this what an innocent man does?

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If Trump actually tells Sessions in a tweet to end the investigation then that is obstruction.

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Trump demands Russia probe end 'right now'. He said on Aug 1, 2018 that Attorney General Jeff Sessions must halt the inquiry into alleged election meddling. His remarks are notable because he himself has previously acknowledged the US Department of Justice should be free from political interference. Trump is stupid.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45026754

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Is this what an innocent man does?

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If Trump actually tells Sessions in a tweet to end the investigation then that is obstruction.

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Originally posted by second:
Trump demands Russia probe end 'right now'. He said on Aug 1, 2018 that Attorney General Jeff Sessions must halt the inquiry into alleged election meddling. His remarks are notable because he himself has previously acknowledged the US Department of Justice should be free from political interference. Trump is stupid.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45026754

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Originally posted by THG:
Check this shit out folks, you can't make this kind of stuff up. Trump thinks you need ID in this country to buy food. What a fucking moron.

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
lol. He's actually used the phrase "enemies of the people"?

Yeah. That's going a little too far in my book. I wouldn't know because I don't pay any attention. Trump's rambling certainly doesn't plague my thoughts like it does yours, anyhow.


That being said, I don't think that the MSM on either side is a friend of the people. They're careless, reckless and all they give a shit about is their ratings, so they cater to one rabid fanbase or the other, and the end result is you get two completely different ridiculous stories about the same events depending on which team you're rooting for.

I guess at the end of the day you just have to remember that such a small percentage of Americans even watch the news if you look at the ratings, so most people are still pretty sane.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Well... maybe the MSM shouldn't have been throwing everything but the kitchen sink at Trump.

It would actually be a real shame if there is something to this Russia narrative and nobody pays it any mind since the MSM has been relentlessly attacking every single thing that the man has done and said since day one.

Oh yeah, and calling everyone that voted for him a racist and misogynist hasn't helped either.



Do Right, Be Right. :)

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