Posted on 04/17/2016 5:20:57 PM PDT by BradtotheBone
Paris (AFP) - US Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump has rung alarm bells around the world with his proclamations on foreign policy, but his targets are increasingly shrugging off his barbs.
By suggesting that NATO is "obsolete" and that Japan and South Korea should acquire nuclear weapons to rid the United States of the burden of protecting those countries, Trump has called into question some of the cornerstones of US foreign policy for decades.
The property developer's comments have earned sharp rebukes from President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry.
An exasperated Obama said he was "getting questions constantly from foreign leaders about some of the wackier suggestions that are being made".
Obama said Trump "doesn't know much about foreign policy, or nuclear policy, or the Korean peninsula, or the world generally".
- 'An aberration' -
When Kerry visited the Hiroshima atomic bomb memorial on April 11, he described Trump's proposals to provide nuclear weapons to Japan and South Korea as an "aberration".
Kazuhiro Maeshima, professor of politics at Sophia University in Tokyo, said Trump's comments were "a bluff based on unrealistic views" because the US-Japan security alliance is clearly "contributing to the US national interest".
If Trump became president, "it would at the very least create confusion and carries the risk of triggering a major turning point for the Japan-US alliance and Japan's overall diplomacy," Maeshima said.
Although Trump leads the Republican primary race, he is projected to lose an election against the likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
But the question is whether Trump's campaign could cause lasting damage to America's foreign relations, or at the very least worry its allies and exacerbate strains with unfriendly nations.
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Oh my.
The world is alarmed?
Wow. That sound series.
Good. I no longer give a rip what the “rest of the world” thinks of us.
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Well duh! The American spigot is going to be turned off.
Boy that is the pot calling the kettle black.
The chopping of heads does not alarm them, the raping and mutilation of young girls doesnot alarm them donald trump does
Long past time. The world has been screwing us over for way too long, it’s time to look out for #1.
“Trump’s foreign policy alarms the world: analysts”
Good! It’s time the world should fear the US, rather than the other way around. Go, Trump!
I can’t afford the rest of the world anymore. They ought to grow up and stop living off of us.
This is why we love him so!!
“Trump policy alarms world”
First: there is no political community called “the world”.
Second: if there were, who cares?
Tell me. What did Obama know before he became President? And, what does he know, now?
As a member of the “the world”, please ignore what you hear. If the rest of the world is anything like us, we are full of leftist idiots who don’t know their back ends from a hole in the ground.
Make your country safe, prosperous and sovereign and let the rest of the world take care of itself.
Isn’t that what everyone has been saying for the last twenty or more years? That America should stay out of other countries’ business? Then do it - start by cutting off funding to countries who have no respect for you.
Yeah, an America that doesn’t bow and scrape, doesn’t go around apologizing for carrying everyone else and being the last resort for anyone who’s ass is in a sling over the last hundred years, that’s a problem.
An America that doesn’t stand there with its thumb in its bum whilst being invaded by millions of leeches and killers, that’s a problem. Everyone’s real concerned.
Lessee: we have the Russians buzzing our ships and recon aircraft in international waters/airspace, we have new generation weapons being developed by China and Russia for use against us, we have China expanding their power by grabbing islands from our allies and fortifying them, and we have Iran inches away from having a nuclear weapon complete with intercontinental delivery capability -
The world is worried about Trump? What have they been doing the last seven years?
DT is going to fix the rest of the world just like he fixed the States’ delegate selection process!
I don’t remember “The World” being alarmed when Hillary murdered Gadddafi and unleashed an invasion into Europe..perhaps the biggest foreign policy blunder in world history
don’t remember the world being alarmed
You mean Scruz— Right?
Glad they’re worried.
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