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> So far there is not much Trump as done in regards to foreign policy that I disagree with

Except for culturing a situation where one of our closest allies justifiably doesn't trust us to help them out, even in straightforward ways, in the biggest international crisis of the last 70 years, you mean.

We've come a fucking long way from the Berlin airlift, huh? The biggest disaster isn't Trump, really. It's the realization that his poison goes so deep in the american psyche. No one will think of us the same again.



> No one will think of us the same again.

Offer a few thousand green-cards at random at embassies around the third world.

You will be forgiven in less than 5 minutes.


This is more or less exactly what I meant. Once upon a time, the US was perceived as a world leader and a savior of last resort, by our own citizens as well as the world community. Now we're seeing another crisis, and our leaders and their followers insist, like you do, on viewing the whole thing through the lens of... unwanted immigration. Seriously?

Basically, we used to be the teachers in the schoolyard. Now we're a ramshackle fort of sneering kids trying to keep people out of "our" stuff.


> the lens of... unwanted immigration. Seriously?

That is not the lens I am seeing it through.

Rather, where I live NO ONE could care less about your world leadership or whether you are or ever were the teachers, blah, blah, blah.

All of us out here will bitch and moan about the USA, but give anyone of us a ticket to the USA (especially if our family can come along) and we'll take it in a heartbeat.

You aren't our teachers, you are the bank.

Seriously.




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