Posted on 01/18/2017 9:03:53 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
As president, Barack Obama was too cool for the special relationship. The romantic bond between the United States and Great Britain, which always makes Churchill fans go all soggy-eyed, left him cold. Obama was more interested in globalism, ‘pivoting’ to Asia and the European Union. Donald J. Trump is a very different creature. The new US President seems to cherish Great Britain, whereas the EU annoys him. Brexit is beautiful, he believes — and the EU is falling apart.
Trump may or may not know the name of the British Prime Minister but, as he told Michael Gove this week, he is determined to strike a free trade agreement with Britain ‘very quickly’. Trump deals in deals, and he wants to deal with us. As for Angela Merkel and the EU, they can either fall in with Trump’s new world order — or fall out with the world’s greatest superpower.
His attitude to Europe is nothing short of revolutionary. With a few words in Trump Tower, he seems to have torn up decades of US State Department policy. He doesn’t see much of a future in the whole EU project, effectively predicting its demise. ‘People want their own identity,’ he says, ‘so if you ask me, others, I believe others will leave.’ He believes in nation states, and he does not see the EU as representative of the continent. In fact, he says, it is ‘basically a vehicle for Germany’.
It’s hard to overstate the effect of these words on the EU, and its ambitions to be seen by Washington — and the world — as an economic and diplomatic counterweight to the United States....
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This is a must read, representing one of the first serious foreign assessments of the coming Trump presidency. The world has confused Trump’s calculated, brash persona with the essence of the man, and is now beginning to realize that Trump is far more serious, capable and formidable than they estimated. Trump’s insistence on bilateral trade policy is a dagger to the heart of the one-worlders and a bold stroke for freedom. Excellent article.
U.K. hurt itself very badly siding with the Israel haters in the Security Council.
No doubt at the urging of Obama
To read later.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/britain-denounced-for-defending-israel-in-international-forums/
That was two days ago.
If this guy thinks The Donald forgot about Parliament debating banning him, he still has a lot to learn.
underestimation....it is his super power.... he feeds it. It will be a humbling 8 years for many.
Thanks. I am happy to see the U.K. showing some spine.
Parliament had no choice. The government’s official petition site received over 100,000 signatures from virtue signalling liberal dolts of the kind that are a cancer throughout the west and so it breached the threshold required for it to be debated in Parliament. The motion was heavily defeated as expected
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I don’t care; it’s stupid that 100,000 signatures mean anything. Obama threw away the Piers Morgan petition as he should have done. And, don’t forget, many, many politicians, including David Cameron and Boris Johnson, made stupid, divisive remarks about Trump.
Parliament had no choice. The government’s official petition site received over 100,000 signatures from virtue signalling liberal dolts of the kind that are a cancer throughout the west and so it breached the threshold required for it to be debated in Parliament. The motion was heavily defeated as expected
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Camoron is no longer PM. May is.
You’re repeating yourself.
I think the previous occupants disdain for Great Britain stemmed from their historic perspective regarding Islam which is only now reawakening.
Winston Churchill on Islam
“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.
A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities - but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it.
No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.”
Winston Churchill (The River War, first edition, Vol. II, pages 248-50 (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1899)
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