Trump47 Foreign Policy Catch-All | Vance in Munich
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4thgenheel
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superrific
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You know who else has energizer bunny energy? The energizer bunny. I would not want it leading the country, though it would do less harm than Trump.
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Carrots would disagree.
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Mulberry Heel
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I honestly don't know why anyone is still "shocked" by anything Trump or the people around him do. By this point no one anywhere should be surprised or shocked by anything he does, unless it involves humility, decency, modesty, intelligence, or other character traits he clearly does not possess. Just more evidence that a great many people - and not all of them Trumpers - simply continue to refuse to believe that Trump 2.0 will actually do what they said they're going to do, or that part of their goal is to just burn the whole system down.
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I had a similar reaction. I think people were counting on more of a repeat of Trump 1.0 when he was more of a blowhard without much focus and no experience on actually pulling the levers of government.
People have been screaming from the rooftops that this time around there was an organized plan and team of MAGA fanatics prepared to do the stuff being done this week and too many other people accused them of being overly dramatic and blew it off. Pfffft, Trump said he has nothing to do with Project 2025, you guys are alarmists!
Now they are shocked when exactly what was detailed happens.
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Not just halt funding, but stop work:
“…Rubio’s guidance, issued to all diplomatic and consular posts, requires department staffers to issue “stop-work orders” on nearly all “existing foreign assistance awards,” according to the document, which was obtained by POLITICO. It is effective immediately.
… The guidance could open the U.S. government up to civil liability as lawsuits could be filed over unfulfilled contracts if the terms are deemed to have been violated, the current and former officials said, although at points it says the decisions need to be “consistent with the terms of the relevant award.” …”
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Danish Government Horrified to Learn Trump Is Serious About Wanting Greenland
"I do think it is serious, and potentially very dangerous,” one official said.
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According to a report from the Financial Times, a call between Trump and Denmark’s prime minister Mette Frederiksen went sideways, and now the Danes are freaking out.
The story goes that Trump and Frederiksen spoke on the phone last week for about 45 minutes in what was expected to be a bit of a feeling-out between the two parties, given Trump’s very public declaration that he would like to take Greenland off Denmark’s hands. There apparently weren’t a lot of pleasantries exchanged before Trump got aggro.
While Frederiksen reportedly expressed a willingness to cooperate with America, potentially allowing the U.S. to set up shop for military bases and dig up the island’s wealth of mineral reserves, that was not enough for Trump. He wants to buy Greenland outright and reportedly was unwilling to move off position. “He was very firm. It was a cold shower,” a European official told the Financial Times. “Before, it was hard to take it seriously. But I do think it is serious, and potentially very dangerous.”
So that’s not great. Officials described the Danish government as being in “crisis mode” following call and said they are “utterly freaked out by this.” Denmark, which is a NATO member alongside the U.S., is now staring down the barrel of potential tariffs that would seek to inflict harm on the country’s economy until they’re willing to let go of Greenland.
They’re right to be worried. Per the U.S. State Deparment, America is Denmark’s largest export market, and business between the two accounts for nearly 80,000 jobs for Danes. So there is a fair bit of opportunity for Trump to put the squeeze on, and he’s reportedly sending some of the most annoying people possible to negotiate. Ken Howery, a former PayPal mafia member alongside Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, is reportedly America’s point person, pending Senate approval. And there’s another Thiel ghoul, Dryden Brown, who appears ready to jump at the chance to turn Greenland into a techno-utopia, whether they want it or no
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lawtig02
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Wait, is this Trump finally acknowledging climate change???
Mulberry Heel
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Trump's bragging about America needing to get bigger sounds eerily like a certain German political group claiming that Germany needed more "breathing room" in the 1920s and 1930s. He really does seem to want to bring back Manifest Destiny and American Imperialism.
William McKinley fought the Spanish-American War and gained us our first overseas colonies, and given his newfound love for McKinley maybe that's who Trump's trying to emulate. What he doesn't know (or likely care) about is that taking over the Philippines led to the Filipino Insurrection in which hundreds of thousands of Filipinos died trying to win their independence from the USA (and at least 12,000 US soldiers were killed crushing the rebellion). And it also led to all kinds of complications with Cuba which in many ways continue to bedevil us today.
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He wants something that will leave a mark after he’s gone. Something that can’t be undone easily. Something he can put his name on. Unsurprising given his personality and past.
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No doubt, and I agree, but it's still unnerving. McKinley didn't live in a world with nuclear missiles, and Trump certainly has shown no ability to learn from past mistakes - either his own or the nation at large.