US Politics & Foreign Policy under D.Trump

nomadski wrote:
@Andalusia

First point about Iran nuclear deal . Iran has not broken the deal as per UN resolution . The missile tests are all conventional warhead and not nuclear . And as such there are allowed . No mention of range was made in UN resolution either . So Iran can have as many varied range ballistic missiles with conventional warheads . However the yanks are in breach of UN resolution . Since all unilateral and multilateral sanctions had to be removed . However banking sanctions remain . And Iran can not sell it's oil . And it is unable to buy passenger planes from Boing . And Airbus has problems too . Since some components are from Boing . This action by yank is a practical breaking of nuclear deal . If not an official tearing up of deal . The result will be the same . Iran will respond in kind . But this may not be known to all .

Did Russia vote in favour of UN resolution in Iraq and Afghanistan and Libya and yemen ? Allowing military action by yanks ? If they had voted against . Then this was better . This would make such actions illegal . Just because a government forms the majority , this does not make them legitimate . Just because opposition is minority , this does not make them illegitimate . This depends on many different factors . Such as their politics and whether they are willing to compromise . Are they peaceful and ready for ceasefire . And if they will coexist with others .......

In this sense the Houthis are not comparable to isis in  Syria . And Hadi is not comparable to Assad  . The Russians and Chinese have to understand this . And make distinctions . Sanctions must be imposed on those who transgress the boundaries and reject peace . A new UN resolution is needed for Yemen . The yanks and Brits should not be allowed to drag their heels with the text . People in Yemen are dying under the weight of the inhuman and unjust previous UN resolution .

GarryB wrote:Clinton hates Russia... there would be nothing but cold war with her in power.

Trump is not Russia friendly but he sees Russia as a huge powerful country that the US has to cooperate with to get things done.

With Clinton it is America first and crush any rivals to the crown because America is best and no one else can be allowed in the same game.

With Trump... he sees what all this America first bullshit has actually done to the real people of the US and while he is very rich he clearly recognises that the US can be great without making most Americans slaves to the 1 percent with money.


He is no robin hood... but at least he will say no to wall street and let more americans have a bite of the pie.

I don't like Trump much... he has too many about faces for me... but as they say better the devil you know... well Hilary would definitely be bad... Trump just might be...

I suspect half the people voting for trump supported Sanders and just voted to Trump because they could not bring themselves to vote for hilary.

Another factor is that the US media ignores over half the US population... they believe their own propaganda and believed Hilary would walk into office... they were wrong and when they were found to be wrong it was Russian hackers or aliens or whatever... they are in total denial because the big business wanted Hilary in power and they are owned by big business... clearly something many Americans do not want... more of the same.

GarryB wrote:I am not stupid enough to think a Trump led US would be best buddies with Russia.

I do think that Trump can work with Russia rather than just oppose Russia on ideology alone.

kvs wrote:

Project Canada wrote:
Michael Flynn Leaves Post of Trump's National Security Adviser

Trump Expects Russia to 'Return Crimea' to Ukraine - White House


It looks like Russia hating forces in the US are working hard to choke Trump's initiative to mend relations and force him to confront Russia at all costs. I really WISH Putin would come up with or at least ask the best strategists in Russia to formulate a plan to dismantle NATO hegemony over the world's financial system, only a complete economic collapse will throw NATO into chaos along with their military and globalist ambitions. its the only way to save Russia from being harassed everytime they purse their interests.

Stupid is, as stupid does.   For a moment the US establishment had chance at trying to pry China and Russia apart and win the long game.
They are now back to their bankrupt, insane delusion that Russia is some banana republic that can be pushed around.   The crap about
Crimea is rich.   Does Russia also have to give Sevastopol back even though it was never transferred from Russia to Ukraine by Khruschev?
This whole shtick of "international recognition" is vapid irrelevance.   "Recognition" is not replacement for rights and facts on the ground.
Some of the biggest hypocrites on Crimea are the UK.   They always invoke the will of the population of the Falklands and Gibraltar as
coming before the territorial aspect.   Yet they routinely act as if the ethnic Russian majority in Crimea has no rights and some bogus
territorial "rights" of Ukraine are paramount.  Ukraine never had any rights to Sevastopol and its claims to the rest of Crimea are based on
the illegal transfer by Khruschev and "recognition" of its "rights" by foreign powers.

I hope Crimea keeps the riling the west and forcing it to keep sanctions on Russia for decades to come.   These sanctions are a godsend to Russia.

GarryB wrote:I actually agree... good relations with the west will only increase the strings that the west will try to tie up the Russians with...

I am sure Putin will return the Crimea to the Ukraine... when the US returns Alaska to Russia, and most of the southern US states to Mexico... and Guantanimo to Cuba for that matter...

par far wrote:
What does everyone think of this article.

“IT’S OVER FOLKS”: NEOCONS, DEEP STATE HAVE NEUTERED TRUMP PRESIDENCY."

https://southfront.org/its-over-folks-neocons-deep-state-have-neutered-trump-presidency/