Interesting. So how should the US react or benefit from these actions? I asked a Tahitian woman at the Papette airport bar what she thought of the French. She just walked away. The folks in New Caledonia have been acting up in the last year or so. Algeria fought them big-time. They’re liked as much as we like them.
As colonialists we’re not as bad as the others but we’re not exactly clean. I say give independence to Puerto Rico, American Samoa joins Samoa and(again) the monarchy gets restored in Hawaii with the native Hawaiians taking power. For good measure call for an independent Quebec. Prime the pump and then watch the world-wide independence movements come to a head. Ireland back to the Irish. If the democracies can light the fire watch how the tyrants of the world soil their pants. Jimmy Carter tried it with his human rights campaign and it cost us in the short term with Iran and other places but it was the right thing to do as it caught on. Time to go back to the well.
It’s gonna be awesome. Just think of Marco Rubio getting his POTUS training as president of Cuba. Havana becomes the capital of South America rather than Miami.
As far as colonies are concerned, our actions in the Phillipines were pretty bad back in the day.
Palladium, the French shoe company made boots for the Foreign Legion in the late 40’s and early 50’s. They currently make a reproduction of it… in Vietnam. I bought some to enjoy the irony.
Rubio has yet to make the transition from Senator in an ugly internal political system where name calling and lies are the normal verbal currency....
Rubio needs to read about how Diplomatic Relations are conducted. There is a language usage, and there are norms. It requires intelligence not only to understand, but to actively participate. One cannot go on a Sunday show and talk as if they are dealing with Chuck Shummer or Nazi Pelosi.
In diplomacy one never insults the other party to score cheap points and not at all or not ever. Acts leading to war are non-verbal demarc notes from one leader to another, not by the crass words of appointed diplomats.
Rubio lacks the mental acuity to serve as SecState in these times. Just becasue American the powerful has dictated to the world for a long time, we are no longer in that position, nor does our internal political discourse translate into international politics and diplomacy.
It is sad that the 1968 protest DNC leadership today has dumbed down everything with their violence rather than diplomacy - communists are the first to drop the niceness of relations and resort to insults - they break the laws and agreements and are not to be trusted. When a people begin operating internally in this manners, it is up to a professional diplomatic class not to allow leakage of the internal into world affairs.
Trump and Rubio have burned so much diplomatic currency in eight months that years of work sought to attain. The world is now forever changed by our failure to be patient.
Trump is a War(ring) President. He cannot be trusted day-to-day with what he sez’ nor is he diplomatic. Trump’s conduct of diplomacy indicates to all who observe American Weakness and Desperation, rather than patience and intellectual capacity to solve problems. That Trump is impatient and has no time for diplomatic relations he is doing things publically that should never happen in the light of day, and these things Trump is doing would never happen after diplomatic interations and the resultant choices from that diplomacy.
We have become less than what I would expect from THE PLANET OF THE APES with Rubio in Cubia;)
The Irish are busy giving it away.