Good day all. After the “Thrumping” Cruz received last night, Donald Trump decided it was time for him to talk about his foreign policy. His policy is basically a kick in the nads to the one worlders and new world order types.
The Trump policy can be summed up as “America First.” Here are the details from Fox News:
Donald Trump, in a highly anticipated speech on the heels of his primary-contest sweep across the Northeast, called Wednesday for a drastic shake-up in America’s foreign policy – including “getting out of the nation-building business” and demanding NATO allies pay their “fair share” or be left to “defend themselves.”
“It’s time to shake the rust off America’s foreign policy,” the Republican presidential front-runner said.
With that you just saw the heads of the Striped Pants brigade and the Neo-Cons in the State Department and various think tanks go POP! Observe.
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In what was billed as a major policy speech, Trump called for an “America first” approach. To that theme, Trump voiced skepticism toward international deals like NAFTA and said a Trump administration would not allow the U.S. to enter agreements that reduce America’s ability to control its own affairs. He panned what he described as the “false song of globalism.”
And there go the craniums of the Chamber of Commerce leadership.
The speech, read from a teleprompter and focused on policy, was also heavy on campaign-season slams against President Obama and Hillary Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state. He called their policies “aimless” and destructive, and criticized them for not using the term “radical Islam.”
“We went from mistakes in Iraq to Egypt to Libya to President Obama’s line in the sand in Syria,” Trump said. He said this has allowed the Islamic State to thrive — but said, going forward, the U.S. is out of “nation-building.”
I’m not sure when we got into the nation building business. You could say it was after World War 2 when we basically destroyed Germany and Japan. We had to rebuild pretty much everything and that included the political systems of both countries. We were successful there, and that made the morons in the State Department think that they could do this everywhere. We’ve seen just how well that’s worked out, haven’t we? Next, he went after NATO.
Meanwhile, he stood by his controversial stance on NATO allies, complaining only four other member countries besides the U.S. spend the minimum 2 percent of GDP on defense.
“The countries we are defending must pay for the cost of this defense … and if not, the U.S. must be prepared to let these countries defend themselves. We have no choice.”
NATO is a dinosaur. It was set up to defend Western Europe against the Soviet Union. The Soviets are gone, and NATO has been pretty much useless since 1992. The one time we needed them, after 9/11, they were, with very few exceptions, nowhere to be found. They’ve been relying on the United States to defend them and the taxpayers of America have had enough.
Trump said, if elected president, he would call for a summit with NATO allies and a separate summit with Asian allies to discuss common challenges – including tackling migration and Islamic terrorism. He broadly called for the U.S. to project strength – and better understand who its friends and enemies are. Regarding Russia and China, he said “we are not bound to be adversaries.”
Trump understands that Obama has all but wrecked the military in this country. Trump has spoken of the need to rebuild our defenses. He also knows that part of the problems we have today can be laid directly at the feet of Barack Obama and his flat out incompetence, stupidity and weakness.
A President Trump is quite willing to talk with China and Russia and make deals with them. However, he’s also ready to walk away from the Russians and Chinese if they won’t deal fairly with the United States. Of course, Trump hasn’t been exactly subtle in the things he wants to do and this has shaken foreign leaders.
Trump also has a lot to prove when it comes to calming foreign leaders and policy professionals. They’ve been stunned by his often brash policy proclamations, like his vow to temporarily bar foreign Muslims from entering the country, and an apparent disregard for some long-standing alliances.
I don’t think Donald Trump has any interest in “Calming” foreign leaders. Trump is something we haven’t seen in nearly 40 years. A president who thinks of America as the greatest nation in history. The last president to think like that was Ronald Reagan.
People are wondering what will happen when Trump takes office, I think this speech is going to put the State Department on notice that the usual way of doing business is over. For to long, the Striped Pants Brigade has been representing interests other than those of the United States. Now they might just be forced to actually represent America. I wonder who Trump has in mind to be the next Secretary of State?
Thatisall
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