Jump to content

America's Foreign Policy & Other Shit Going On Around the World thread


Recommended Posts

Posted
3 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

What we are doing both internally and externally is causing generational damage that will be felt by our children and grandchildren.  We are not going to be able to just turn back on and rebuild things like VoA, RFE/RL, the Wilson Center, or Office of Net Assessments.  The country that made those things does not exist anymore and it is nearly impossible to imagine it coming back. 
 

Our Allies and partners will not trust us again.  We may get to a place with better relationships, but in our lifetime we will never be seen as the obvious preferred partner.  

And this is still the top of the 1st.

We are going isolationist, and we are never going back.

These are the first steps to a solitary death for this very sick former power.

  • Hook 'Em 2
  • Like 1
  • Rage+1 5
Posted (edited)
35 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

What we are doing both internally and externally is causing generational damage that will be felt by our children and grandchildren.  We are not going to be able to just turn back on and rebuild things like VoA, RFE/RL, the Wilson Center, or Office of Net Assessments.  The country that made those things does not exist anymore and it is nearly impossible to imagine it coming back. 
 

Our Allies and partners will not trust us again.  We may get to a place with better relationships, but in our lifetime we will never be seen as the obvious preferred partner.  

yep. pretty much.

i mean it's really, dramatically heart-breaking if you think about it too much. crushing almost. and we're only two months in. 

i focus on family, friends, nature, sunshine and puppies. lots and lots of puppies.

 

Edited by mchookem
  • Hook 'Em 3
  • Like 1
Posted
3 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

What we are doing both internally and externally is causing generational damage that will be felt by our children and grandchildren.  We are not going to be able to just turn back on and rebuild things like VoA, RFE/RL, the Wilson Center, or Office of Net Assessments.  The country that made those things does not exist anymore and it is nearly impossible to imagine it coming back. 
 

Our Allies and partners will not trust us again.  We may get to a place with better relationships, but in our lifetime we will never be seen as the obvious preferred partner.  

 

the children and grandchildren will be celebrating how much musk is saving on his taxes and how all his govt contracts were 100% fraud free !

 

  • Rage+1 1
Posted

Tulsi Gabbard is exactly as bad as could be imagined.  It’s incredible to see the Director of National Intelligence retweeting Ian Miles Cheong.  What we are seeing in institutions reminds me of the Cultural Revolution. 

 

image.thumb.png.dad6ae2642d38a6edb0aa1eee38a0b7c.png
 

  • Rage+1 5
Posted
2 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Tulsi Gabbard is exactly as bad as could be imagined.  It’s incredible to see the Director of National Intelligence retweeting Ian Miles Cheong.  What we are seeing in institutions reminds me of the Cultural Revolution. 

 

image.thumb.png.dad6ae2642d38a6edb0aa1eee38a0b7c.png
 

Lmfao what are you talking about? Ian Miles Cheong is a preferred news source in the Daily Texan

Posted

Follow up on someone's previous post about the new Canadian PM purposefully snubbing the US for obvious reasons. I'm sure we've all noticed the almost total silence of this board's cowardly "conservative" contigent the last month or so -- even in DT.

New Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney seeks alliances in Europe as he deals with Trump

MONTREAL (AP) — New Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is heading to Paris and London on Monday to seek alliances as he deals with U.S. President Donald Trump’s attacks on Canada’s sovereignty and economy.

Carney is purposely making his first foreign trip to the capital cities of the two countries that shaped Canada’s early existence.

At his swearing-in ceremony on Friday, Carney noted the country was built on the bedrock of three peoples, French, English and Indigenous, and said Canada is fundamentally different from America and will “never, ever, in any way shape or form, be part of the United States.”

A senior government government official briefed reporters on the plane before picking up Carney in Montreal and said the purpose of the trip is to double down on partnerships on with Canada’s two founding countries. The official said Canada is a “good friend of the United States but we all know what is going on.”

“The Trump factor is the reason for the trip. The Trump factor towers over everything else Carney must deal with,” said Nelson Wiseman, professor emeritus at the University of Toronto.

Carney, a former central banker who turned 60 on Sunday, will meet with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on Monday and later travel to London to sit down with U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer in an effort to diversify trade and perhaps coordinate a response to Trump’s tariffs.

He will also meet with King Charles III, the head of state in Canada. The trip to England is a bit a homecoming, as Carney is a former governor of the Bank of England, the first noncitizen to be named to the role in the bank’s 300-plus-year history.

Carney then travels to the edge of Canada’s Arctic to “reaffirm Canada’s Arctic security and sovereignty” before returning to Ottawa where he’s expected to call an election within days.

Carney has said he’s ready to meet with Trump if he shows respect for Canadian sovereignty. He said he doesn’t plan to visit Washington at the moment but hopes to have a phone call with the president soon.

Sweeping tariffs of 25% and Trump’s talk of making Canada the 51st U.S. state have infuriated Canadians, and many are avoiding buying American goods when they can.

Carney’s government is reviewing the purchase of U.S.-made F-35 fighter jets in light of Trump’s trade war.

The governing Liberal Party had appeared poised for a historic election defeat this year until Trump declared economic war and repeatedly has said Canada should become the 51st state. Now the party and its new leader could come out on top.

Robert Bothwell, a professor of Canadian history and international relations at the University of Toronto, said Carney is wise not to visit Trump.

“There’s no point in going to Washington,” Bothwell said. “As (former Prime Minister Justin) Trudeau’s treatment shows, all that results in is a crude attempt by Trump to humiliate his guests.”

Bothwell said that Trump demands respect, “but it’s often a one-way street, asking others to set aside their self-respect to bend to his will.”

Daniel Béland, a political science professor at McGill University in Montreal, said it is absolutely essential that Canada diversify trade amidst the ongoing trade war with the United States. More than 75% of Canada’s exports go to the U.S.

Béland said Arctic sovereignty is also a key issue for Canada.

“President Trump’s aggressive talk about both Canada and Greenland and the apparent rapprochement between Russia, a strong Arctic power, and the United States under Trump have increased anxieties about our control over this remote yet highly strategic region,” Béland said.

 

  • Hook 'Em 2
Posted

I cannot emphasize enough how insane it is that the White House allowed a rapist MMA fighter who has said he will run for president of Ireland launch an attack on his country’s policies from the White House podium on their national holiday. 
 

image.thumb.png.83aaa4df0a2342023c92b4d126540b78.png

  • Rage+1 2
Posted

French MEP demands the US 'give us back the Statue of Liberty'

A French member of the European parliament has called for the US to return the Statue of Liberty originally gifted by the French people to mark the centennial of American independence because the US no longer represents the values that led France to offer the statue.

Posted (edited)
10 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Tulsi Gabbard is exactly as bad as could be imagined.  It’s incredible to see the Director of National Intelligence retweeting Ian Miles Cheong.  What we are seeing in institutions reminds me of the Cultural Revolution. 

 

 

image.thumb.png.dad6ae2642d38a6edb0aa1eee38a0b7c.png
 

@Anastasis your thoughts on Ian Miles Cheong?  And a DNI that reposts such claptrap?  A Malaysian gamer?

Edited by TwiceHorn


×
×
  • Create New...