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Former President Donald Trump's United States of America

junior43 said:
We shouldn't have an issue - yet. Trump's annoyed about Obama agreeing to take refugees off of Australia's hand. Trudeau's offering the opposite.

It does seem inevitable that everyone will have an issue with Trump though.
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We will have an issue - that's his "negotiation" style. At some point he is going to push - NAFTA is coming up.

JT may have/need a just watch me moment soon.

AoD
 
tiffer24 said:
Everyone will eventually have an issue with Trump... beware of the "just because" category.
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It might be more useful to focus on who he didn't instead *nudge nudge*

re: Canada - commentary from Michael Den Tandt/Post:

http://news.nationalpost.com/full-c...-trump-has-roots-in-mulroney-reagan-diplomacy

The worry is that the strategy can only go so far — because Trump is not Reagan, to state the obvious.

If the president continues to veer beyond the caustic and controversial, into the recklessly destructive, he risks making himself universally loathed. If that happens, diplomacy gets checked by rising nationalist fury on this side of the border. And we are, truly, in uncharted territory.
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JT will have to prepare for that ultimate outcome.

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AlvinofDiaspar said:
We will have an issue - that's his "negotiation" style. At some point he is going to push - NAFTA is coming up.

JT may have/need a just watch me moment soon.

AoD
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Get the popcorn ready for May 26/27. It's the next G7/G8 meeting. By that time Trump will have pissed off enough countries, that I get the impression the group photo will be similar to the classic Rob Ford photo where everyone else is having a good time and Rob was off to the side sulking (actually nursing his hangover).

It also may mark the first time the other major economies stand up to him as a group (hopefully).
 
junior43 said:
Get the popcorn ready for May 26/27. It's the next G7/G8 meeting. By that time Trump will have pissed off enough countries, that I get the impression the group photo will be similar to the classic Rob Ford photo where everyone else is having a good time and Rob was off to the side sulking (actually nursing his hangover).

It also may mark the first time the other major economies stand up to him as a group (hopefully).
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Standing up to him as an end in and on itself is probably the wrong focus for the G6 collectively (because the lord knows the other two are going to be having their nuptials) - but they should be standing together to prevent further erosion of the bloc and transgressions from parties with ulterior motives. Would be curious to see how UK position itself.

EDIT - actually even before that, this is something to focus on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_presidential_election,_2017

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Trump's first military operation in Yemen has resulted in the deaths of at least 15 civilians, including an 8 year old girl who was an American citizen, a US Navy SEAL, and the loss of a $70 million helicopter. "Almost everything went wrong" according to a military official, who said how Trump rushed into this operation "without sufficient intelligence, ground support or adequate backup operations". The Obama administration knew about the target but didn't act on it because they lacked sufficient intelligence.

Needless to day, if Clinton had gotten people killed in a military raid "without sufficient intelligence", the Benghazi outrage machine would want her head on a stick. But according to Spicer, the raid was "successful operation by all standards".
 
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salsa said:
Trump's first military operation in Yemen has resulted in the deaths of at least 15 civilians, including an 8 year old girl who was an American citizen, a US Navy SEAL, and the loss of a $70 million helicopter. "Almost everything went wrong" according to a military official, who said how Trump rushed into this operation "without sufficient intelligence, ground support or adequate backup operations". The Obama administration knew about the target but didn't act on it because they lacked sufficient intelligence.

Needless to day, if Clinton had gotten people killed in a military raid "without sufficient intelligence", the Benghazi outrage machine would want her head on a stick.
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The moral/ethical issue of collateral damage aside, the most damning thing to me isn't any of that per se, but this:

Through a communications intercept, the commandos knew that the mission had been somehow compromised, but pressed on toward their target roughly five miles from where they had been flown into the area. “They kind of knew they were screwed from the beginning,” one former SEAL Team 6 official said.
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