I totally agree. What countries could make up such an alliance, provided, of course, that US pulls out of UN and kicks UN out of US? My preliminary list would look as follows: US, Israel, Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Monte Negro, Slovakia, Austria (as of today). Who would everybody add to this list based on your better knowledge of different countries politics? Thanks.
Neo-con Nation Building again. We need to learn from history. What worked or did not work in the past? Look not just at government action, but at action of NGOs such as missionaries, and of for-profit actions.
Bill Gates, son of a Commie lawyer, never had the best OS, never the best word processor or spreadsheet. But Bill Gates invented the best capitalist hi-tech marketing system. That new marketing system moved entire 3rd world countries into the first world.
Currently around the world, the ambitious minority of poor kids are learning technology and business on the internet, not in government schools. This new internet educated minority from poor countries will be the leaders of the future.
The problem with nation building is that the hallucination turned to vision has never resulted in government action that made any sense.
In Iraq, the neo-cons were totally unprepared to do nation building. Once Sadam lost power, they had no clue what to do. They disbanded the Iraq army ... their first mistake. They designed a strong central government when they should have built strong local governments. They did everything wrong.
How can we be sure that the next nation building will be more prepared and competent?
This is a broad overstatement because I think some presidents, specifically our founding fathers, did make decisions similar to President Trump. He is doing two things distinctly different though:
1) He is making decision like a businessman, not a politician.
2) His decisions are based on what is good for the country not the party. His policies defy the conventional DC political practice of compromise.
In this context most presidents in our lifetime have promised one thing to get elected only to sell out key elements just to get passage, then present the results as an "accomplishment".
Everything President Trump has done so far, has been what he promised he would do. That drives the professional politicians nuts because it sets a new standard of expectation by the voting public.