Posted on 01/17/2020 12:58:01 PM PST by edwinland
A year and a half into Donald Trump’s presidency, Henry Kissinger set out a theory. “I think Trump may be one of those figures in history who appears from time to time to mark the end of an era and to force it to give up its old pretences,” he told the Financial Times. “It doesn’t necessarily mean that he knows this, or that he is considering any great alternative. It could just be an accident.” A term has been coined to describe this notion: Ryan Evans of War on the Rocks calls them “Trumportunities.” It is the idea that, whether by accident or design, Trump creates chances to solve long-running international problems that a conventional leader would not. His bellicose isolationist agenda, for instance, might already be forcing Europe to confront its geopolitical weakness; China, its need for a lasting economic settlement with the U.S.; and countries throughout the Middle East, the limits of their power. The president’s erratic behavior might be doing something else as well, something even more fundamental. Through a combination of instinct, temperament, and capriciousness, Trump may be reminding the world of the reality of international relations: Raw military and economic power still matter more than anything else—so long as those who hold them are prepared to use them.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
The headline writer, who is almost never the author of a piece, is just following the talking point that Trump stumbles and bumbles into everything, like Forrest Gump. Always the right place at the right time. Pure luck and happenstance.
The article, as with the opening Kissinger quote, allows that he is a disruptive force. Breaking paradigms, smashing the status quo, and revealing the folly of the past 3 decades of US policy. While the author still isn’t quite willing to concede that Trump’s accomplishments aren’t “accidental”, it’s still a sharp departure from the “Trump is a cross between Forrest Gump and Hitler” that the MSM pushes.
Should he win a second term, the media will eventually be forced to shift toward this position, though they will never withdraw their assertion that Trump is an evil monster. But history will record that he was a great and transformational President, if he wins in 2020...
Precisely!
I know diplomats. I have worked with diplomats.
They all use weasel words and implied meaning and all sorts of other ways to say one thing and do another.
A diplomat’s worst nightmare is someone who ignores their “rules”. They have particular disdain for business people who want results. “It’s a process”, they say. “It will take time”, they say. Then along comes some businessman who cuts through the crap and makes them look like the yellow bellied two faced jackals they are.
They have to get rid of him. He is making them look bad.
Journalists who wish to remain employed print what their bosses like them to print.
Long past time for that dinosaur to sink into the tar pit.
I guess that’s better than nothing.
There was the story of the minor league manager who, after the third error, pulled his right fielder and took his place in the outfield to show how it is done.When the inning ended, with the manager having committed an error himself, he came back to the bench and told the player, “You’ve got that field so fouled up nobody can play it right!"
> “Donald Trump Stumbles Into a Foreign-Policy Triumph”
From: The Atlantic
by their stooge who goes by the name of TOM MCTAGUE
Here’s how Mr. Tom has been programmed to hurl his putrid adjectives and snarks:
Title: “stumble”
Snark: “Kissinger set out a theory” whereas Trump gets ir right by “accident”.
Snark: Trump is not coming up with “any great alternative”. Trump’s just lucky is all.
Slur: Call it “Trumportunities” coined by a nobody named Ryan Evans who is likely a butt harbor for Monsieur MCTAGUE.
Slur: “bellicose isolationist”
Slur: “erratic behavior”
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How is The Atlantic is still in business? Soros.
It’s called putting America’s Interests first. When you do that, good things just naturally happen.
I was arguing this point with people ten days ago. Trump understood the concept of escalation dominance, and wasn’t afraid to leverage his stronger bargaining position. It’s what the foreign policy establishment and especially the professional politicians don’t quite grasp because they are more concerned with “optics” than with results.
This article is absolutely worth a read.
Did the smarmy never Trumper Atlantic actually say something positive on Trump?
LOL!
Trump understands deeply that we are the most powerful nation on earth, and should start acting like it rather than apologizing for it. The Brit foreign policy people cited in that article understand that's exactly what he's doing, and that's why he's succeeding.
Kissinger was Carter’s Sec/State.
TOTAL CLUSTERFU@K.
Right. Every moved that caved the economy causing higher unemployment under Obama was historic, though.
It is always bemusing that the Stupids refuse to credit intellect if it isn’t theirs. Somehow, genius is accidental.
Stumbled, hardly.
Trump understands the USA and the entrepreneurial spirit.
What he has done is made it possible to unleash the dogs and let them fight rather than muzzle and starve them out.
My hatred for all things elite grows daily.
The elites and the intelligentsia all need to be destroyed.
That, and most politicians are crooked and are dealing to extract some juice for their own pocketbook. Trump is different because he has the best interest of the country at heart.
By being honest and for regular American citizens, Trump is shining a bright light on just how corrupt our politicians have become.
Why do I continue to give the Atlantic another try!?
Reading it is always a multiple slap-in-the kisser!
I promise I won’t ever try to understand their left-handed
compliments again.
Donald J Trump stumbled his way into 30 billion in personal wealth, a successful television show, wooing and marrying several of the most beautiful women in the world and getting elected president of the United States. Obviously just blind luck.
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