In a month, Trump has destroyed 'America First'
The uproar in Washington over President Trumps corruption in Ukraine and malfeasance in Syria has obscured a broader story. In little more than a month, virtually every other foreign policy initiative the Trump administration has pursued has imploded thanks mostly to the presidents increasingly unhinged behavior.
The unraveling started on Sept. 7, when Trump abruptly announced that he had canceled a previously undisclosed summit with the Afghan Taliban due to be held the next day at Camp David, and shelved a draft peace deal that a State Department special envoy had spent a year negotiating. The immediate result was a spike in violence in Afghanistan and at least the temporary shelving of Trumps ambition to pull U.S. troops out of the country before the 2020 election.
A week later, Trumps maximum pressure campaign against Iran came undone. Following an Iranian-sponsored attack on a Saudi oil complex, Trump ruled out a military response; instead, he told French President Emmanuel Macron that he was open to a plan to meet Iranian President Hassan Rouhani at the United Nations and lift sanctions on his government in return for negotiations. The gambit failed: Rouhani left Trump waiting on a phone line. But Saudi Arabia got the message: Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has asked Iraq and Pakistan to broker a de-escalation with Tehran.
Just two weeks after the Iran debacle, Trump saw his nuclear negotiations with North Korea crumble again. At a meeting in Stockholm, Kim Jong Uns delegation rejected a U.S. proposal for an incremental deal a far cry from the total disarmament Trump once sought and walked away, refusing to agree to a date for future talks. Trumps hopes for a Nobel Prize-securing breakthrough in 2020 now look vanishingly small.
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underpants
(182,778 posts)What a disaster
tanyev
(42,552 posts)Firestorm49
(4,032 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)SWBTATTReg
(22,113 posts)be recognized by rump (rump himself) as being the primary and root cause of these failures. Rump's administration is in chaos, his thugs and cronies seem to only be interested in enriching their pockets while ignoring everything else that responsible governing requires.