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AtUrCervix -> RE: Trump dumps Russia, woos China instead (4/14/2017 5:17:56 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery
From CNN:
President Donald Trump has a new best frenemy.
Once upon a time, Trump mused about how well he and Russian President Vladimir Putin would get along. Then-candidate Trump said Putin had declared him a "genius," criticized the Obama administration's tensions with Moscow and said it would be better "if we got along."
China, on the other hand, was a currency manipulator, a thief of US jobs that should no longer be allowed to "rape our country." If elected, Trump promised to impose heavy tariffs on Beijing and take it to court for shady trade practices.
It turns out that wielding power — as opposed to criticizing it — can change your outlook.
(Always true). See "The Prince"...by Nicoli Machiavelli
This month, during which his administration has stepped up US military action in Syria and Afghanistan as he looks to reassert US power, Trump said that "we're not getting along with Russia at all, we may be at an all-time low." He and Chinese President Xi Jinping, on the other hand, have "a very good chemistry," Trump declared.
(See: "It turns out that wielding power — as opposed to criticizing it — can change your outlook." {accurate as hell})
(Simply: Sitting in the big chair changes EVERY perspective).
The President's reversal on Russia and China is part of a series of policy flip-flops that have seen Trump abandon campaign positions on NATO, Israel, the Iran nuclear agreement and US alliances in Asia. (Well...not if you read his books but, more importantly...history shows that every Prez "shifts" when in power: "I will CLOSE GITMO in my first 100 days" and...."watch my lips....NO NEW TAXES!!!").
The shifts, which bring Trump's White House in line with many Obama and George W. Bush administration policies (see above), may not last under this mercurial president, but they reflect some hard facts about America's interests.
"Whatever the aspirations on the campaign trail, they have given way to the realities of what it takes to conduct American foreign policy in a cruel and unforgiving world," said Aaron David Miller, vice president at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
"The way this administration does business is highly unorthodox in so many respects," Miller said, "but the ultimate outcome on so many issues seems now to come around to a pretty conventional approach."
And so it is — these days — with Russia and China.
(But...who do we want as a friend....in the future....Russia....declining in power or....China {which actually despises Russia...only aligning with them out of default}...or...Russia?).
Trump had been eager to improve relations with Moscow and often expressed confidence that his ability to bond with Putin would ease friction between Washington and Moscow over Russia's role in Syria and its annexation of Crimea from Ukraine.
His alliance with Russia was media centrist...the evidence (in the last few weeks) paints a viably different picture.
But Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's alleged April 4 chemical weapons attack on his own civilians triggered Trump's outrage, leading him to strike a Syrian airfield with Tomahawk missiles and seeming to mark a change in Trump's outlook on Russia — which has supported Assad throughout Syria's bloody civil war.
Hmmmm....very interesting stuff....see (above).
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