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Proud Liberal Dem

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5. I don't know if I would classify us a "rogue" state yet

Reply to Doodley (Original post)

Thu May 10, 2018, 10:04 AM

May 2018

but our role on the world stage is certainly being diminished in a big way bit by bit and we are starting to be ignored by European countries. For all of the right-wing Republican blather about President Obama making the US look "weak" and "irrelevant", nobody could actually make us look worse than Donald Trump has so far. George W. Bush got the ball rolling on making us a pariah state with only a brief interlude with Obama where we were respected again.

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Has Trump turned America into a rogue state? If so, what should other nations do about it? [View all] Doodley May 2018 OP

Other nations will turn their backs on America as tRump continues to turn America the RKP5637 May 2018 #1

which Mr. Putin will be very happy bdamomma May 2018 #2

What always makes me anxious are the number of damn fools in the US that support Trump and the RKP5637 May 2018 #6

they are cut from a different cloth bdamomma May 2018 #11

Yep, I think that's true for a certain percentage that got swept up in the fanfare. n/t RKP5637 May 2018 #12

they were bdamomma May 2018 #13

Yep, one of the all time greats. n/t RKP5637 May 2018 #16

and Mr. Putin bdamomma May 2018 #17

If Iran and Israel get into some type of war, the US is obligated to get involved RKP5637 May 2018 #18

I thought tRump bdamomma May 2018 #19

So unpredictable because even he doesn't know what he says/thinks minute by minute. n/t RKP5637 May 2018 #21

More of a pariah among nations world wide wally May 2018 #3

Yep, also if I lived in another country I doubt I would ever vacation or study in RKP5637 May 2018 #14

I am an ex pat bdamomma May 2018 #20

We've been there for a while (anybody remember Dimson Bush and his illegal war?). shanny May 2018 #4

I don't know if I would classify us a "rogue" state yet Proud Liberal Dem May 2018 #5

Well said!!! n/t RKP5637 May 2018 #8

Our allies will wait this out...hoping that the ship will be righted. If this type keeps "winning" Kirk Lover May 2018 #7

Agreed. Proud Liberal Dem May 2018 #9

Yep, they are watching and the clock is ticking. n/t RKP5637 May 2018 #15

realize like china has, they can buy goods they used to buy from us elsewhere dembotoz May 2018 #10