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Sassy Trump Sings National Anthem on Memorial Day

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Blind Frog Belly White5/31/2017 8:53:29 am PDT

re: #493 HappyWarrior

I thought I had some respect for McMaster. No more. This is bullshit.

Indeed. He was supposed to be ‘the adult in the room’.

But, it does make sense in the context of Trump’s affection for strongmen as leaders of nations, as well as his choice of billionaires, generals, and sycophants as advisers. He doesn’t believe in diplomacy, or multilateral organizations. His approach to the EU, for example, is to bitch about our trade deficit with Germany. But Germany is not a trading unit, the EU as a whole is. It’s like China complaining about a trade deficit with Nebraska.

More than that, though, his goal of ‘bilateral trade negotiations’ with every individual nation is essentially the approach of the union-busting CEO: divide and conquer.