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Post by jdredd on Oct 21, 2016 1:58:13 GMT -5
www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/10/philippines-duterte-china-announces-split-161020131226993.htmlPresident Rodrigo Duterte has declared the Philippines' "separation" from long-standing ally the United States during a visit in Beijing as he rebalances his country's diplomacy towards China. Duterte's comments came after he met his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Tiananmen Square on Thursday. The two also pledged to enhance trust and friendship and played down a maritime dispute in the South China Sea. "I announce my separation from the United States, both in military but economics also," Duterte announced at a meeting of Filipino and Chinese businessmen in Beijing. " America has lost it," Duterte was quoted as saying in a transcript of his speech by the Philippine Presidential Communications Office on Friday morning. "I mean, I realigned myself in your ideological flow and maybe I will also go to Russia to talk to Putin and tell him that there are three of us against the world: China, Philippines and Russia." Sometimes it's hard being the world's policeman when you have ungrateful foreign leaders like Rodrigo. Is he just a crazy dictator wanna-be, or is he the latest to figure out America's foreign policies are full of sh*t? Remember that Saddam was an ally at one time before he pissed us off by invading Kuwait without our permission. We were fine with him when he picked a fight with Iran.
I wonder if the CIA is already hatching a plot to deal with Duterte?
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Post by jdredd on Nov 9, 2016 2:43:04 GMT -5
I've already mentioned that the Boomers have handed the Millennials a steaming turd on a plate. And America is handing the world a steaming turd on a plate. Will all of our "allies" eat it? Probably. Our money is still good.
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Post by jdredd on Nov 16, 2016 2:00:13 GMT -5
It just doesn't get any better than this: There is a chance Rudy Giuliani might be our next Secretary of State. Perfect! A clown Secretary of State for a clown President.
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Post by jdredd on Nov 18, 2016 1:46:23 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2016/11/18/us/politics/donald-trump-after-fits-and-starts-focuses-on-foreign-policy.html?&hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=b-lede-package-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news"WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump embarked on one of the rituals of the American presidency on Thursday, meeting in New York with the prime minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, as he continued his fitful adjustment to the protocols of high-level diplomacy. “I am convinced Mr. Trump is a leader in whom I can have great confidence,” Mr. Abe said after the meeting at Trump Tower. He described the 90-minute encounter as “really cordial.” The visit with Mr. Abe came after 32 congratulatory phone calls from foreign leaders in the nine days since Mr. Trump won the election. None seem to have adhered to established diplomatic practice, in which the State Department choreographs the sequence of the calls and provides policy guidance and translating services." Here is the Japanese PM kissing Trump's ass. I was hoping at least the Japanese would have better taste. By the way, Mr. Abe, how does Trump's ass taste?
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Post by Tired in CV on Nov 20, 2016 6:22:21 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2016/11/18/us/politics/donald-trump-after-fits-and-starts-focuses-on-foreign-policy.html?&hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=b-lede-package-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news"WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump embarked on one of the rituals of the American presidency on Thursday, meeting in New York with the prime minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, as he continued his fitful adjustment to the protocols of high-level diplomacy. “I am convinced Mr. Trump is a leader in whom I can have great confidence,” Mr. Abe said after the meeting at Trump Tower. He described the 90-minute encounter as “really cordial.” The visit with Mr. Abe came after 32 congratulatory phone calls from foreign leaders in the nine days since Mr. Trump won the election. None seem to have adhered to established diplomatic practice, in which the State Department choreographs the sequence of the calls and provides policy guidance and translating services." Here is the Japanese PM kissing Trump's ass. I was hoping at least the Japanese would have better taste. By the way, Mr. Abe, how does Trump's ass taste? Well you apparently don't remember Obama bowing down to the Prime Minister of Japan, almost to his shoes, kissing his ass on the way down and again on the way back up!
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Post by Tired in CV on Nov 20, 2016 6:43:09 GMT -5
www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/10/philippines-duterte-china-announces-split-161020131226993.htmlPresident Rodrigo Duterte has declared the Philippines' "separation" from long-standing ally the United States during a visit in Beijing as he rebalances his country's diplomacy towards China. Duterte's comments came after he met his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Tiananmen Square on Thursday. The two also pledged to enhance trust and friendship and played down a maritime dispute in the South China Sea. "I announce my separation from the United States, both in military but economics also," Duterte announced at a meeting of Filipino and Chinese businessmen in Beijing. " America has lost it," Duterte was quoted as saying in a transcript of his speech by the Philippine Presidential Communications Office on Friday morning. "I mean, I realigned myself in your ideological flow and maybe I will also go to Russia to talk to Putin and tell him that there are three of us against the world: China, Philippines and Russia." Sometimes it's hard being the world's policeman when you have ungrateful foreign leaders like Rodrigo. Is he just a crazy dictator wanna-be, or is he the latest to figure out America's foreign policies are full of sh*t? Remember that Saddam was an ally at one time before he pissed us off by invading Kuwait without our permission. We were fine with him when he picked a fight with Iran.
I wonder if the CIA is already hatching a plot to deal with Duterte? President Duterte has likely made a major mistake! Of course, Obama expected him to act like a subject of the U.S. and showed him little respect! President Duterte reacted to Obama's arrogance and we have likely lost an ally! Little does he know that China WILL TAKE the islands they claim, regardless of Duterte's new friendship with them. It just makes it easier for them to occupy and take the islands! I agree that we should not be the world's policemen. But we do need a presence in certain areas. Obama, as a policeman, took us into Libya (by air) then promptly lost all control and leaving Libya worse off than when Kaddafi ruled it. Again, Obama took us into Syria, armed ISIS rebels who promptly turned around and invaded Iraq! Syria is in a full civil war with no clear faction to support, no way to insure weapons and supplies do not go to ISIS and air support is woefully inadequate. We have no business there but Obama wanted to play regime change while he held his hands behind his back, fired any General/Admiral that knew how to get the job done and refused to fight a war to win. In its present state, we should not be concerned with Syria. We can't do anything there without troops on the ground and that would expand the war beyond Syria's borders. Syria, Russia and Iran are having their own problems with an unorganized group of fighters, some of whom are ISIS. If an overthrow of Syria were to take place, our government would not know how to set up another government there. Look how many years it took to get Iraq where it is and it is still a work in progress as they go it alone (building their government). If we focus on anything, it should be on ISIS (anywhere) and also Cartels working within our borders
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Post by jdredd on Apr 20, 2017 14:53:04 GMT -5
It looks like Trump has narrowed down the list of Designated Nemesis candidates. Mr.T has dropped his China bashing, so China must be out. I guess we need them to assist us with North Korea. And his administration has said they will live with the Iran Deal for now, so Iran is apparently off the hook. (We can turn on China and Iran later) But the Republican Establishment has gotten to Trump, and now he has done a 180 on Putin. Which leaves North Korea and Russia tied for first place. ISIS, not being a nation, doesn't count.
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Post by jdredd on Apr 16, 2018 0:17:13 GMT -5
America is apparently still the World's Policeman. Unfortunately, it seems like a cop who has lost his marbles IMHO. Things were so much easier when we just had the Commies to fight.
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Post by jdredd on Apr 25, 2018 23:51:57 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2018/04/25/opinion/north-korea-south-korea-peace.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-right-region®ion=opinion-c-col-right-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-right-region"WASHINGTON — When the government of South Korea announced last week that it would begin work on a formal peace treaty with North Korea, to be discussed at a summit meeting on April 27, its so-called Sunshine Policy of engagement gave way to P.T. Barnum-style, a-sucker-born-every-minute diplomacy. Fighting in the Korean War ended in 1953 with just an armistice, and South Korean officials are calling for a “permanent peace.” But it is not merely unrealistic to hope that Kim Jong-un, the leader of the North, will offer the South real and lasting peace; it is delusional. If the past is any guide, the North will offer the South unenforceable verbiage. And if the South accepts a phony peace ploy, it will expose itself to more manipulation by the government in Pyongyang — not only in its domestic politics, but potentially also in its alliance with the United States." Here's another hack from the odious American Enterprise Institute (and there seems to be hundreds of them) trying to undermine any peace process in Korea.
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Post by jdredd on May 15, 2018 15:53:24 GMT -5
Oh, silly me. Why did I not realize before now that being the world's policeman is what gives life meaning for a lot of Americans?
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Post by jdredd on Jun 19, 2018 0:22:09 GMT -5
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Post by jdredd on Jul 8, 2018 23:04:04 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2018/07/08/opinion/editorials/why-nato-matters.html?hpw&rref=opinion&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well"As Lord Ismay, NATO’s first secretary general, somewhat cheekily observed, the trans-Atlantic alliance was created to “keep the Soviet Union out, the Americans in and the Germans down.” Seven decades later, those goals have largely been met (yes, the Germans have risen, but in the right ways), and many people — including, evidently, the president of the United States — wonder whether the alliance still has a purpose. It does. It remains the most successful military alliance in history, the anchor of an American-led and American-financed peace that fostered Western prosperity and prevented new world wars. No one has proposed anything credible to improve upon it. But as the allies gather in Brussels this week for their annual meeting, many are wondering whether the American president is intent on wrecking it. Born after World War II, NATO linked America and Europe not just in a mutual defense pledge but in advancing democratic governance, the rule of law, civil and human rights, and an increasingly open international economy. The alliance was the core of an American-led liberal world order that extended to Asia and relied on a web of international institutions, including the United Nations and the World Bank." "In short, NATO remains central to major American national security initiatives in a world shaken by the rise of an increasingly assertive China, the expansion of competing power centers from India to Saudi Arabia, the surge of migration from the Middle East and Africa and the dislocations caused by globalization. Yet NATO is being weakened from within — by members’ failure to spend enough on defense; by the rise of nationalism and authoritarianism, especially in Turkey, Hungary and Poland; and perhaps most of all, by President Trump, who seems to prefer President Vladimir Putin of Russia to America’s European allies." So here is the so-called "liberal" NYT getting all weepy at the skepticism of NATO by Trump. Members are not spending enough on defense? Who decides what is "enough"? But NATO is still the protector of the status quo, even as Europe slides toward fascism.
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Post by jdredd on Jan 1, 2020 15:53:19 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2020/01/01/opinion/north-korea-nuclear-test.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage"Is anyone surprised? On the last day of 2019, after months of threatening the United States to ease its nuclear standoff with “a bold decision” by year’s end — or else — the leader of North Korea darkly announced that the country would unveil a new strategic weapon “in the near future.” Kim Jong-un also declared an end to a moratorium on nuclear weapons and missile tests. On the first day of 2020, he did not deliver his customary, often fiery, New Year’s address. In other words, he interrupted his regularly scheduled program to bring us his latest threat. The false calm is over; the old North Korean nuclear crisis is back on — only, it has just entered a deadly serious phase. The government in Pyongyang is looking to establish a new normal: One where it gets to threaten San Francisco with incineration, and we get to do nothing. The United States’ only option for precluding this nightmare is to bring down the hammer on the Kim regime before its capabilities expand even further." Ha-ha! Here is another bloodthirsty clown (a Boomer of course. I should start a thread called "Beware Boomer Warmongers") from the American Enterprise Institute in the "liberal" NYT spouting off. Apparently war is a great American enterprise.
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Post by jdredd on Aug 2, 2021 14:54:29 GMT -5
A column in today’s NYT claims “We cannot allow Afghanistan to collapse”. Well, sadly, no matter how painful, we can. We allowed Assad to slaughter a half a million of his own countrymen. What’s the difference? We could still be fighting there. Why was it our job to liberate Iraq? We turned Iran’s enemy into Iran’s ally. The airstrike industry has made billions in profits from Afghanistan, and that will probably continue. Painful as it is to agree with Trump on anything, I think he had the right idea on Afghanistan. We can’t fix all the world’s problems, even though I’m sure we will continue to try. Until we go broke.
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Post by jdredd on Aug 10, 2021 23:20:25 GMT -5
So what does possible failure in Afghanistan mean for America as the world’s policeman? Well, failure in Vietnam did not stop us from meddling all over the globe. We certainly would respond to any threats to Taiwan or Israel. How many other places?
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