Trump and His New BFF's: Defining New World Standards One Conflict at a Time

Nixon's Watergate 7 — Trump same path with his 7

History indeed may be repeating itself

(March 2, 1974)

Interesting article here from Vox with this headline:

Trump loves dictators. Erdogan is the latest to take advantage of that

The troubles facing Syria — and troubles elsewhere — are in large part caused not by America’s weakness, but by Trump’s.

Trump bragged that his decision to withdraw U.S. troops from northern Syria thus leaving those America’s allies, the Syrian Kurds who helped “defeat ISIS (as Trump also proclaimed),” to fend for themselves against invading Turkish forces — was a strategically brilliant masterstroke. He then said the Syria ceasefire his administration agreed to with Turkey on amounted to a great day for civilization. 

But Trump doesn’t seem to know that he’s played right into Turkish President Erdoğan’s hands as well as to Putin, al-Assad, and Iran’s hands, too — all of which is the latest horrifying example of how Trump gets taken advantage of by wily strongmen who he always caters and brags about relationships with them (e.g., Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong-un, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Hassan Rouhani, Bashar al-Assad, Xi Jin-ping, Rodrigo Duterte, Egypt’s Abdel Fattah al-Sissi, and several Latin and South American tyrants).

My 2 cents: Why does Trump appease them? 

Simple: they are strong men, dictators, and tyrants and Trump can’t stand to be outdone by anyone, so he tries to surpass them in his quest for his one-man rule of America – not proven, but a damn logical guess. 

But he is way out of his league in that effort and right now he has a very dismal record to prove my contention. Finally, to understand Trump, even if that’s possible is this simple supposition: Whatever Trump says, implies, does, tries, proposes, suggests, denies, or puts forth as the best or true about anyone or anything, just take the opposite view and path and bingo: You will know Trump.

Meanwhile and along the way, Trump blasts, insults, degrades, and belittles trusted allies, friends, and longtime partners, e.g., the UN, EU, G-7, IAEA, Japan, South Korea, several other nations, and worse, most of our national security and intelligence agencies.

All that is very damaging to our democracy and freedoms, and thus puts this famous quote into full view: “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”  ~ Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

Also, very wise: “One for all for all for one.” (Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno).  

  

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