06-08-2017, 05:29 PM -
(06-08-2017, 07:39 AM)Mozzer Wrote: I've stayed away from this for a few weeks now...I'm sure you are all very glad.
Given your insistence that Hillary was the real problem, and that Trump would do a good job, a period of silence from you has been welcome, yes. But to business: no, I did not say, or even suggest, Trump was in cahoots with North Korea. It's not him who wants North Korea pursuing a dead cat strategy to true and distract people. It's Putin.
And of course, Pyongyang is much more likely to do this at a time the world's attention is very much elsewhere, as it certainly is today. Nothing unusual in that: Moscow took advantage of the Suez crisis to crush the 1956 Hungarian uprising, for example.
More broadly:
1. Trump spent 10 days on international business trashing NATO, infuriating all America's main allies, left Merkel dismissing the US as no longer reliable, and did Putin's bidding.
2. Trump was especially excited about his incredible 'deal' with Saudi Arabia. What's happened in the region since? Sudden, dramatic isolation of Qatar by almost everyone else; Turkey sending troops to protect Qatar; and a terrorist attack on Tehran yesterday which the White House all but condoned in their disgusting statement.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. As the net slowly closes in on Trump, his only option left will be a war. All sorts of extremely strange things are happening in geopolitics right now as the US vacates global leadership; and the individual seeking to benefit from that most is the Russian President. Whose intelligence community hacked the American election. Who Trump regularly speaks about in glowing terms. Whose goal - break up the West - Trump is pursuing. And whose intelligence were themselves responsible for hacking Qatar and triggering much of the recent escalation.
It's easy to laugh at Donald Trump and to think this is only a big deal for the US. It's not. It's a huge, very dangerous deal for the world. The Trump Doctrine could be summarised as: "All nations only have their own self-interest; there are no international norms", and we're already seeing the consequences of that.