US Foreign Policy: The Wogs Begin at Calais

[Kepler]

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Assad is a true un-PC hero. I'm sure Trump will get along with him fine.

 

[burd]

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No, that's not the way it works. When there is no higher authority to adjudicate problems, where you put the soup spoon becomes really f-cking important. All that dumb etiquette arcana is how you "always remember a woman's birthday but never remember her age." It keeps everybody at the table and communications channels open, and in a "war of all against all" like geopolitics communications is the only thing standing between us and Very Bad Things.

This is symptomatic of Trump not having a clue how diplomacy works. That's scary as f-ck, because while phone calls don't cause wars, phone calls cause breakdowns in relations which then create an environment in which escalation becomes a higher risk.

I think Trump's approach to foreign policy will be like his approach to debates: he is both too arrogant and too lazy to prepare. Add that to his impulsivity, and you have a lighted match walking around stumbling over fuses.

 

[MaizeRage]

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I'm not sure who this Assad guy is, but man does he *hate* Skittles. Anyway, stability is very good for business.

Newsweek had an interesting article today on how Erdogan has arrested some partners in Trump's giant towers in Istanbul as leverage to get the US to extradite the cleric from Pennsylvania that they blamed for the whole coup attempt. So that is going well.

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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I think Trump's approach to foreign policy will be like his approach to debates: he is both too arrogant and too lazy to prepare. Add that to his impulsivity, and you have a lighted match walking around stumbling over fuses.

I'd say it's more like smoking in a coal mine.

 

[MaizeRage]

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I'd say it's more like smoking in a coal mine.

What's wrong with that? I guarantee that Trump carried Centralia, PA.

 

[FlagDUDE08]

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I think Trump's approach to foreign policy will be like his approach to debates: he is both too arrogant and too lazy to prepare. Add that to his impulsivity, and you have a lighted match walking around stumbling over fuses.

Why try hard for the debates when Clinton received the questions in advance? And yet he still won...

 

[Kepler]

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Europe contemplates life after America.

 

[joecct]

Europe contemplates life after America.

Toilet paper sales have increased dramatically in Brussels and Berlin.

Meanwhile, Vlad, taking a page out of Reagan's playbook, will continue to rattle sabres and force the EU to dramatically increase their military spending thereby bankrupting the EU. The Western Alliance collapses and Vlad can rest secure on his Westetn borders.

 

[dxmnkd316]

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I'd say it's more like smoking in a coal mine.

That's not an explosion proof device...

 

[dxmnkd316]

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Vlad can rest secure on his Westetn borders.

In what universe did he have to worry at all?

 

[Kepler]

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Toilet paper sales have increased dramatically in Brussels and Berlin.

As well as Paris, not to mention Helsinki, Talinn, Riga, and Vilnius.

Not Rome, though. They don't have any toilet paper in Italy -- always bring a sock.

 

[joecct]

In what universe did he have to worry at all?

Hey the neo cons keep wanting to expand NATO eastward. They keep fighting the wrong war.

The need to read Foundation.

 

[dxmnkd316]

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Europe contemplates life after America.

Smart on them.


(Also, that sub looks badazz compared to the giant but silent dildos we make)

 

[dxmnkd316]

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Hey the neo cons keep wanting to expand NATO eastward. They keep fighting the wrong war.

The need to read Foundation.

This isn't meant to be snarky, but can you point to a single credible movement within the US or Europe with any serious backing that wanted to push east into Russia? We obviously know Russia wants to reunite the Soviet Union and has taken the first giant steps towards that goal.

 

[joecct]

This isn't meant to be snarky, but can you point to a single credible movement within the US or Europe with any serious backing that wanted to push east into Russia? We obviously know Russia wants to reunite the Soviet Union and has taken the first giant steps towards that goal.

Expanded NATO into the Baltics, Poland and Balkans right up against the Russian Boulder. Why?

 

[Kepler]

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This isn't meant to be snarky, but can you point to a single credible movement within the US or Europe with any serious backing that wanted to push east into Russia? We obviously know Russia wants to reunite the Soviet Union and has taken the first giant steps towards that goal.

The military coalition dominated by the two countries that invaded deep into their territory in 1800 and 1940 gobbled up all the buffer states right up to the Russian doorstep. That coalition also invited Russia's former largest trading partners into an economic common market, and is financing energy companies that directly compete in the export market on which depends Russia's national security.

Western Europe has been at least as lethally provocative towards Russia as the US was towards Japan before WW2. Let's hope the analogy fails to play out.

 

[Kepler]

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Smart on them.


(Also, that sub looks badazz compared to the giant but silent dildos we make)

I think it looks like a cross between the space shuttle and the bull that sits outside the NYSE.

 

[St. Clown]

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Expanded NATO into the Baltics, Poland and Balkans right up against the Russian Boulder. Why?

Because the Belarissian Rock just wasn't big enough?

We expanded NATO with the hopes of keeping Russia from once again becoming an empire. They have a history of flexing their influence over that area by might-makes-bear. We had existing NATO allies uncomfortable with the idea of Russia encroaching upon their own boulders and rocks once they expected the Russians to rebuild their military after the Soviet collapse. So they recruited buffer states, and that's what we've done, rightly or wrongly.

 

[St. Clown]

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I think it looks like a cross between the space shuttle and the bull that sits outside the NYSE.

I want to know why the hatch tower is so long. What's the purpose to that? It seems like a shorter tower would be cheaper to build and easier for concealment.

 

[Kepler]

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Because the Belarissian Rock just wasn't big enough?

We expanded NATO with the hopes of keeping Russia from once again becoming an empire. They have a history of flexing their influence over that area by might-makes-bear. We had existing NATO allies uncomfortable with the idea of Russia encroaching upon their own boulders and rocks once they expected the Russians to rebuild their military after the Soviet collapse. So they recruited buffer states, and that's what we've done, rightly or wrongly.

The Plan was for the buffer states to protect both sides. The Motherland has at least as much to fear from The Fatherland as vice versa. The best thing that could happen now is a mutual withdrawal from those states by both sides.