Posted on 03/31/2016 7:32:37 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Those who insist Donald Trump has no foreign policy are simply not listening. The “Trump Doctrine” is a page right out of Ronald Reagan’s playbook: peace through economic and military strength.
Trump knows the key to keeping America safe in an increasingly dangerous world is to “make America great again” through economic renewal.
America must have the fiscal firepower to end Pentagon’s budget sequestration in order to fund the military the U.S. needs for adequate defense. Cutting the corporate tax rate and cracking down on unfair trade practices to increase America’s GDP growth rate are just as demonstrative of national might as the F-35. Here is how President Trump would use a newly empowered economy and military confront our rivals abroad:
Defeating Daesh
The best way to kill ISIS is to cut off its own financial head in two ways: first, target any oil fields that it may be using as a cash register and “follow the money” through the Internet and expropriate it.
Trump is probably aware of Nietzsche’s admonition to beware that “when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster.” Trump also knows that when you are facing an enemy willing to bomb your sons and daughters and behead prisoners, you must strike equal fear into the heart of that enemy. Under a Trump Administration, no ISIS member will be safe, the cells of Guantanamo will be fuller, and America will be safer.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalinterest.org ...
Overturning the Iran Nuclear Deal
Trump believes, as the strange bedfellows of Saudi Arabia and Israel are wont to do, that the Obama administration has made a terrible deal with Iran. Removing sanctions will allow this fascist, terrorist state to restore it economy and continue to develop capabilities to deliver nuclear warheads as near as Riyadh and Tel Aviv and as far away as Brussels and New York. President Trump will abrogate that deal the day he takes office. As commander in chief, he will exert both economic and military pressure on Saudi Arabia, our quasi-enemy that has pledged to destroy Israel and dreams of ruling a new Middle Eastern caliphate. As far as Israel is concerned, however, Trump appears to regards this democratic state as America’s most important ally in the Middle East. But Trump, along with most Americans, disagrees with hardliners who insist there can be no deal brokered between Israel and the Palestinians. A deal is possible, but you cannot have peace unless you are willing to negotiate.
From Russia, With Revanchism
Trump recognizes Vladimir Putin for the clever, ruthless, charismatic leader that he is. Putin has run strategic circles around both America and its NATO allies when it comes to Russia’s military intervention in Crimea, Ukraine, Syria, and former Socialist Republics like Georgia and Latvia.
Putin recognizes Trump as a strong and fearless leader who will draw clear red lines in Europe and the Middle East that Putin dare not cross. This is a far better and safer situation for America than a status quo Russia policy that leads from behind and inspires far more contempt from Putin than respect.
China’s Rising Phoenix
Trump will no longer tolerate a mercantilist China having its way with America’s factories and jobs. He will firmly crack down on unfair trade practices like illegal export subsidies, currency manipulation, and intellectual property theft and bring American jobs and factories home.
That’s not just good trade policy—it’s good foreign policy, too. China’s rapidly advancing military strength has been its ability to economically grow much faster than its strategic rivals. In other words, by rebalancing trade between the US and China, Trump will also rebalance the military equation in America’s favor.
Sharing the Burden of Defense
Trump has made headlines about revamping America’s alliances—from NATO to our allies in Asia. Trump knows the problem here is not that these alliances are not useful to the defense of the American homeland. Rather, Trump is tired of the U.S. having to pay the lion’s share of the bill to protect wealthier nations unwilling to spend the requisite funds to defend their own homelands. Consider that while the U.S. spends fully 3.5 percent of its GDP on defense, Japan is at a measly 1.0 percent, Germany is at 1.1 percent, and even South Korea, with an absolute madman on its border contributes a measly 2.6 percent. As president, Trump will demand a better deal for American taxpayers.
Meh.
More like “peace through that guy is drunk or something, let’s stay over here.”
Ripping up NATO is not showing strength.
Nor is being “neutral” towards Israel.
Which of course, is PRECISELY why the line of people attempting to destroy Trump. They don’t want a strong and exceptional America. The only way to implement one world order, socialism is to bring the U.S. down to the rest of the world’s level.
Peace through strentgh? No, that was Reagan. More like votes through bullshi-.
Some have dismissed my assertion that Donald Trump represents the No. 1 security threat to the United States today as “hyperbole.” It’s not. It’s simply reality — because Trump is the most radical and most ignorant major-party presidential candidate in our history.
Trump seems to think he is entitled not only to his own opinion but to his own facts. He not only doesn’t know much, but he also doesn’t know what he doesn’t know — and he’s made no effort to educate himself. That’s a dangerous combination in someone who aspires to the most powerful job in the world.
Trump is highly selective and even deceptive in his citation of history. This is especially a concern since history provides the storehouse of information and ideas upon which statesmen act. ...
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/foreign-policy/why-trump-is-a-national-security-threat/
"Did I just do that?!"
Rebuilding like Trump says is correct.
“Ripping up NATO is not showing strength.”
NATO, another word for “The US pays for everyone else’s defense.” NATO is no longer needed.
Yes! That’s the best summary of the Trump Doctrine I’ve seen so far: “Votes through Bulls**t.” Brilliant.
It is time for Europe to pay for it own defense
and have there own defense forces
and join us if there is trouble in other areas
NATO certainly needs to be reviewed for membership and costs, given the muzzie incidents and supporters around the world.
The socialist and liberal countries need to live or die by their own hands, not handouts from the US. Pay up, or pull back and let ‘em swim.
The problem for a inveterate BS'er like Rumpy is that you had better have a damn good memory, else you get caught. Here's one of the thousands of examples:
Trump can’t be trusted on Israel. He gave an OK speech to AIPAC — to be more exact, he read an OK ghost-written speech — but the Times interview showed his heart isn’t in it. At one point he refused to commit to a “two-state solution” to the Israeli-Palestinian dispute. “I’m not saying anything. What I’m going to do is, you know, I specifically don’t want to address the issue because I would love to see if a deal could be made.” Trump doesn’t seem to realize that the alternative to a two-state solution is a one-state solution that would mean the end of Israel’s existence as a Jewish state.
Presumably, someone clued him in between his first and second conversations with the Times, because the second time around he retreated to his AIPAC stance: “Basically I support a two-state solution on Israel. But the Palestinian Authority has to recognize Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state. Have to do that.”
What will he say tomorrow? Who knows? After all, he stresses his unpredictability, which would leave every American ally, including Israel, guessing as to whether he would stand with them in the clutch.
Well of course he sounds bad when you actually just blindly accept this nonsense BS.
Blindly accept? I watched trump say it live on TV.
Yes, his handlers try to fix the random crap he says, and he presumably had no clue what he was saying, but that’s pretty much the point. He’s clueless.
It’s like the foreign policy of Cliff Claven from cheers.
Go YouTube “AIPAC Trump speech”. It’s good stuff. You’ll learn a few things.
You are on some mission to make Trump look like Reagan.
Those of us that think for ourselves know better. But keep it up, I’m sure some of the 5th ave drones will agree with you.
I was there.
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