We've not been a great ally, but maybe a good one, through our history. However,it hasn't taken much to go from good to perfidious (the new Word for the Day). Going forward, who will trust us?
My thinking has turned toward the idea that other nations need to start forming military alliances against us; especially nations in our own hemisphere. Our behavior is the sort of thing that leads to a proliferation of videos on TikTok declaring, "You know, I think bin Laden kinda had a point." We need a kick to the crotch.
We've threatened Colombia, Mexico, Cuba, gone into Venezuela, punished Brazil with tariffs for holding their own Trump accountable. These places are vulnerable individually, but if an attack on one of them becomes an attack on an alliance of all nations south of the Rio Grande, and those two big oceans aren't such a protective barrier, maybe we'll straighten up. We're looking a lot like the Persia that led to the Delian League, or the Germany that made allies out of the US, Great Britain, and a mass murdering Communist.
These Latin nations need to look past their differences and get each others' backs, because any one of them could be next. And nothing unites enemies like a common enemy.
Will, As usual, you can peek into the mind of Trump and readily identify what's missing, dignity. This is the typical repertoire from the career liar, cheat and grifter, he hides the ball with the ploy strategy and then shoots down the sideline enriching himself along the way. He then rewards his toadies with a pat on the head and a kind word. It's a nice gig if you can get it.
I don’t see how we’ll ever persuade the rest of the world that this was just a terrible aberration in our history that will never happen again.
We've not been a great ally, but maybe a good one, through our history. However,it hasn't taken much to go from good to perfidious (the new Word for the Day). Going forward, who will trust us?
My thinking has turned toward the idea that other nations need to start forming military alliances against us; especially nations in our own hemisphere. Our behavior is the sort of thing that leads to a proliferation of videos on TikTok declaring, "You know, I think bin Laden kinda had a point." We need a kick to the crotch.
We've threatened Colombia, Mexico, Cuba, gone into Venezuela, punished Brazil with tariffs for holding their own Trump accountable. These places are vulnerable individually, but if an attack on one of them becomes an attack on an alliance of all nations south of the Rio Grande, and those two big oceans aren't such a protective barrier, maybe we'll straighten up. We're looking a lot like the Persia that led to the Delian League, or the Germany that made allies out of the US, Great Britain, and a mass murdering Communist.
These Latin nations need to look past their differences and get each others' backs, because any one of them could be next. And nothing unites enemies like a common enemy.
Will, As usual, you can peek into the mind of Trump and readily identify what's missing, dignity. This is the typical repertoire from the career liar, cheat and grifter, he hides the ball with the ploy strategy and then shoots down the sideline enriching himself along the way. He then rewards his toadies with a pat on the head and a kind word. It's a nice gig if you can get it.
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