Trump has the best foreign policy, in terms of making sense.
/s
Not like the Dems were much better, but yeah, the Trump regime is even worse.
How so?
Well, its... kind of hard to totally disentangle Syria from Israel and Iran... and Palestine, and Iraq, and Lebanon, and the Kurds, and Russia... and Trump recently just directly, very publically, bombed Iranian nuclear facilities...
I am reasonably confident this would not have happened in a Dem regime.
They are genocide enabling and duplicitous assholes, but Trump and his cabinet turned that situation up to 11 by sending in B2s with GBU 57s, and being very, very public, antagonistic about this.
...
Regardless of the strike actually being effective or not, it completely slams the door shut on basically ever doing another nuclear deal with Iran (again, done under Obama/Dems, revoked by Trump)....
... barring something like a complete 180 in some theoretical future Dem regime that totally 180s on basically everything connected to Israel. No clue how likely that is or isn't at this point, but it is at least theoretically possible.
...
Dropping morality from the equation, massively directly aggroing against Iran, with is a player in Syria, is just incompetent on its face at being any kind of sensible policy.
Like, I guess just even more full throatedly going against Iran does remove a significant amount of their influence in Syria (maybe?)... but the cost is looking like a completely insane mad man at the international level...
...not to mention pissing off a significant domestic chunk of Trump's own base, the ones stupid enough to somehow believe Trump was the 'peace candidate'.
...
US foreign policy irt Syria in particular has been a shitshow for about 2 decades now, simply on its own terms of theoretically 'promoting American security interests.'
Trump has accelerated this from 'a clusterfuck' to 'a paradigm ending disaster that has totally ended the US as the dominant world hegemon'.
It has totally destroyed any remaining remnant of plausibly being a morally justified 'World Police'.
The US is now just obviously a rogue state, by its own definition of a rogue state from 10 years ago.
This is what I mean by 'making sense', or really the complete absence of that.
Foreign policy kinda involves having allies.
Not many people wanna ally with a beligerent mad man.
Trump has the best foreign policy, in terms of making sense.
/s
Not like the Dems were much better, but yeah, the Trump regime is even worse.
How so?
Well, its... kind of hard to totally disentangle Syria from Israel and Iran... and Palestine, and Iraq, and Lebanon, and the Kurds, and Russia... and Trump recently just directly, very publically, bombed Iranian nuclear facilities...
I am reasonably confident this would not have happened in a Dem regime.
They are genocide enabling and duplicitous assholes, but Trump and his cabinet turned that situation up to 11 by sending in B2s with GBU 57s, and being very, very public, antagonistic about this.
...
Regardless of the strike actually being effective or not, it completely slams the door shut on basically ever doing another nuclear deal with Iran (again, done under Obama/Dems, revoked by Trump)....
... barring something like a complete 180 in some theoretical future Dem regime that totally 180s on basically everything connected to Israel. No clue how likely that is or isn't at this point, but it is at least theoretically possible.
...
Dropping morality from the equation, massively directly aggroing against Iran, with is a player in Syria, is just incompetent on its face at being any kind of sensible policy.
Like, I guess just even more full throatedly going against Iran does remove a significant amount of their influence in Syria (maybe?)... but the cost is looking like a completely insane mad man at the international level...
...not to mention pissing off a significant domestic chunk of Trump's own base, the ones stupid enough to somehow believe Trump was the 'peace candidate'.
...
US foreign policy irt Syria in particular has been a shitshow for about 2 decades now, simply on its own terms of theoretically 'promoting American security interests.'
Trump has accelerated this from 'a clusterfuck' to 'a paradigm ending disaster that has totally ended the US as the dominant world hegemon'.
It has totally destroyed any remaining remnant of plausibly being a morally justified 'World Police'.
The US is now just obviously a rogue state, by its own definition of a rogue state from 10 years ago.
This is what I mean by 'making sense', or really the complete absence of that.
Foreign policy kinda involves having allies.
Not many people wanna ally with a beligerent mad man.
...
Maybe a shorter version of my viewpoint could be:
Pete Hegseth is the Secretary of Defense.
Sanctioning the ICC for example.