Posted on 06/12/2018 6:24:05 AM PDT by mairdie
Nobody knew. None of us saw it. Amongst his biggest supporters, maybe a handful suspected it. Many of us expected the economic renewal of the US to happen. Many of us foresaw a significant roll back of Saint Barrack’s horrid, destructive agenda. A lot of us hoped for a major push back on the left.
All of which we have gotten.
None of us, no one I have read, no one I know, expected Donald Trump to be a giant in foreign policy. No one expected him to reshape the world. Yet Donald Trump, in a short time, is doing so.
That was supposed to be one of the reasons to vote against him. He had no foreign policy experience. He did not understand the world. He was going to lead us into wars. He would be taken advantage of by our enemies. He would ruin our alliances. He would be a rube. A bumpkin. An embarrassment. That was what we were told.
Well. Guess what #nevertrumpers? You were so wrong, desperately wrong. Your shame should be bottomless. Bill Kristol, Max Boot, all of you stand up and please voluntarily go into the stocks and throw rotten veggies at yourselves. You should be ashamed to speak. Yep, the entire left-leaning foreign policy establishment as well. All of you.
I did not expect this, never saw this as one of Trump’s strengths. Nonetheless, we have not seen a better, more fruitful, and more capable foreign policy than this administration since the great Ronald Reagan.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
What you can do if you truly love your country and don’t care who gets the credit
Many of us were not surprised. DJT is a man of that immense talents and capabilities. He’s a man of actions and not just empty rhetoric. Thank you God for President Trump.
Very. Stable. Genious.
“America First, bitches!”
Nope. Not tired of winning yet.
“Husband has been saying President Trump is the greatest in his lifetime, at THAT includes Reagan.”
LOL, I’ve had a couple indignant responses from lukewarm at best Trump supporters here when favorably comparing him to Reagan.
I agree with your husband. Reagan had made significant “compromises” with his friends across the aisle by now.
“None of us, no one I have read, no one I know, expected Donald Trump to be a giant in foreign policy. No one expected him to reshape the world. Yet Donald Trump, in a short time, is doing so.”
Yeah, Trump can be rude and crude...so what? That actually works in his favor (he wouldn’t do it if it wasn’t - not more than once or twice), as people understand that he’s not some powder-puff, good-haired pol, but a hard-bitten businessman with power and goals. So that gets him (and us) what he and we want.
I am particularly happy that we will be getting the remains of a lot of our servicemen from the Korean War - none of them are related to me, but we owe that last bit of respect to them, and to their families. Too bad the parents didn’t live long enough to get closure, but at least many siblings, wives and children will. I wish that some other President had the same chutzpah and determination as Trump and did this earlier...but I guess that this is a case of better late than never.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again - thanks be to God for putting Donald J. Trump in the position of President at this time.
Trump campaigned on the most sensible foreign policy that I've heard come from any Presidential candidate in a general election for quite some time. He promised a strong national defense, an end to freeloading from US "allies," an end to squandering our national treasure on foreign aid or on "nation building," and a transactional approach to negotiation with other countries (allies and adversaries) rather than multilateralism. So far he's mostly delivered on those promises or at least done his best to do so.
Nobody except the 63 million people who voted for him.
Deal making is his element - It's where he shines.
He didn't make his fortune selling government secrets and favoritism.
Making legal deals is how he earned several billon dollars.
What the hell. A lot of us saw this. These absent minded idiot #nevertrumpers kept watching the ping-pong ball, back and forth and couldn't see the trick. The trick was getting them to watch the political ping-pong ball going back and forth and never looking at the fact that this was entertainment and the real action was elsewhere.
There are a few fundamental rules of negotiation - like, when you can get a better deal not dealing than dealing then you walk. And you belittle your opponent and make him look like the fool he is trying to make you look like. Rule #2 - you don't negotiate a deal that the other side can't live with.
The problem is that for the professional negotiators - the functionaries at State or the lawyers who do trade deals, a negotiated deal is always better than walking - because negotiating deals is what they get paid for. But that is all tactics rather than grand strategy. And it explicitly accepts what the famous so-called Nash equilibrium - a game solution in which no one side can unilaterally improve his position.
But such negotiations have put us in an impossible strategic position, where we are far better off walking, taking our military, money, and marbles and going home, declaring that their rules are void and that we are going to follow OUR rule - which places the US constitution supreme.
Don't think Trump understands strategy - what are his two most famous properties? 1. Trump Tower, which was able to build because he negotiated the air rights for the next door Tiffany's; and 2. The Old Post Office redevelopment - which is simply the best hotel location in Washington DC. You can burn down the swamp, exile 80% of the population and bureaucrats and the Old Post Office is so centrally located that it will still have superb occupancy rates.
Tell me how grand geopolitical strategy is any different. What is different is when you think that you are stuck with the negotiated position given you by the professional bureaucratic class who claim that only they understand the language of international diplomacy.
It's the old trick = Rule #1 I get to write the rules. Rule #2 - see Rule #1.
You swindled yourself, Dave. Take your eye off the bouncing ping-pong ball inside the beltway, walk outside into the fresh air, breath deep, and take your sun-glasses, because sunshine is bright.
Your shame should be bottomless.
Bill Kristol, Max Boot, all of you stand up and please voluntarily go into the stocks and throw rotten veggies at yourselves.
You should be ashamed to speak. Yep, the entire left-leaning foreign policy establishment as well.
All of you.
Going to save that segment to gobsmack a few around here when they pop up with their yadi yada.
As I said above, I think people miss the point about his RE genius. Negotiating sure, but it's his strategic genius to see geography and see the opportunities. And a geostrategic view is what we have lost over these last couple of decades. To a tactical negotiator, fixing the middle east or fixing the Crimea question or anything else all look the same. To someone who understands maps and connectivity of things they are very problematic - as they have turned out to be.
This is a version of the same pic I saw from yesterday.
Abe had crossed arms in the first one. In this one, his hands are in his pockets. He could be wearing a sandwich board that says NO! and it would be less subtle.
Trudeau is standing out of Trump’s field of view, facing the Europeans, moments before he shivved Trump.
What a snake.
The man keeps winning.
Why surprised? From a hard RE businessman and builder’ point of view, dealing with Kim and Khameinei are the same thing as dealing with Dem0crats and Gopes. He knows who he is dealing with, knows his opponent’s weaknesses and knows how to get what he needs from anyone. Intuition topped by a high intelligence.
I am convinced that Trump was waiting for 20+ years for a true American leader. He did not really want to be President. When no one came along, he had no choice but to roll-up his sleeves and to it himself.
He told us.
That POS Albright must be p*ssed!
“I’m skeptical of the agreement but I’m willing to give our
President the benefit of the doubt.”
You have to give peace a chance, just to cover your *ss if for no other reason.
If that doesn’t work, then over to ‘Plan B.’
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
