Since the New Year of 2018 began, Donald Trump has gone totally bonkers, unleashing a Twitter storm against three nuclear powers–North Korea, Iran, Pakistan–and also further caused massive disarray in the Middle East by attacking the Palestinian Authority.
He has threatened cutoff of aid to Pakistan and the Palestinians, not understanding what damage that will do in the fight against terrorism.
Trump has demonstrated his willingness to threaten nuclear war against Kim Jong Un of North Korea, while also making clear he will destroy the Iran Nuclear Agreement, not realizing that North Korea will have no desire to negotiate when they see that the US is ready to rip up an agreement that five other nations still wish to enforce with Iran.
Why would any nation take the US seriously on negotiations, when Trump is so inconsistent?
And for Trump to talk about the size of his nuclear “button” as compared to that of North Korea, is to make Trump look like a bully on a school playground making himself look like a total jerk!
And declaring Jerusalem to be the Israeli capital, and taking that issue off the table with the Palestinians, and then threatening cutoff of aid for the people who are living under such horrible circumstances in the Palestinian held territories, only convinces the Palestinians that no negotiations with Israel are possible, insuring further bloodshed and violence in the Middle East.
Starting to antagonize Pakistan only insures further troubles as America continues a war in Afghanistan with no end game, and makes for tilting too far toward India, and the India-Pakistan tensions, as both are nuclear powers, is only encouraged by Trump threatening cut off of aid to Pakistan.
Trump is destroying American foreign policy in a manner which will take decades to recover, and our once strong allies in Western Europe, as well as Canada, Australia, Mexico, Japan and South Korea are exasperated over what Donald Trump has wrought.
Well stated Ron.
Just heard that Hawaii had a false alarm missile alert.
http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/13/us/hawaii-false-alarm-react/index.html
Trump was busy golfing when the alert broke. He’s getting blasted for not acting concerned.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/1/13/1732595/-38-minutes-until-missile-alert-declared-false-Trump-was-golfing-couldn-t-be-bothered
Hillary was ready for the 3 AM call. Trump can’t be bothered with the 1 PM call.
Maybe we should be relieved he was out golfing. He might otherwise have made a rash and very foolish decision.
I doubt Dump even knows that Hawaii is a state.
I guarantee he will put the blame on the Democrats for what happened.
The Hawaii incident is why Trump should not be president. On one hand, he might overreact. On the other hand, he might ignore it until he’s finished golfing or Tweeting something.
You are right on the mark, Rational Lefty!
I hope that, God forbid, if the real thing were to happen, that it doesn’t become a “boy who cries wolf” situation.
CNN is reporting that Japan had a false alert as well.
http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/16/asia/japan-false-missile-alarm-intl/index.html
Makes me wonder if some hacking is going on.