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If the choice is between Hillary and Trump, I would expect Trump to do more damage to the world than Hillary. Everything about his behaviour so far has shown h
by kybernetikos 10y ago
If the choice is between Hillary and Trump, I would expect Trump to do more damage to the world than Hillary. Everything about his behaviour so far has shown him to be easily baited and given to irresponsible escalation. These are not attributes that I would expect to go well with international politics.
I find it surprising that Trump is portrayed as an isolationist candidate when personally I think the likelihood of him getting involved in a serious war is probably higher than that of Hillary doing so, despite her being a hawk. Trump repeatedly talks about getting tough and the importance of being strong.
"The other thing with the terrorists is you have to take out their families, when you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families. They care about their lives, don't kid yourself. When they say they don't care about their lives, you have to take out their families." - Donald Trump
This sounds like a deliberate policy of collateral damage.
"With Iran, when they circle our beautiful destroyers with their little boats and they make gestures at our people that they shouldn't be allowed to make, they will be shot out of the water" - Donald Trump
"We're going to have to do something extremely tough over there, okay? ... Like knock the hell out of them. And we have to get everybody together and lead for a change. Because we're not knocking them, we're hitting them every once in a while, in certain places, we're being very gentle about it, you have to be very tough, and there are countries that are getting hit harder than we are, and you have to get them together and show leadership. And you know, you have to fight, the battle's over there. And you have to fight the battle." - Donald Trump
That sounds like a plan to escalate attacks abroad rather than reduce them.
- rtx 10y agoThat sounds like being transparent about your intentions and not using economic hitmen.
- kybernetikos 10y agoNot sure what you mean about economic hitmen - if it's sanctions, then Trump has said that he would increase sanctions on Iran, and on terrorists. He's literally saying that the current policy (of the Obama administration, that for a while featured Hillary Clinton) is too gentle. Elsewhere you said that your concerns were drones and missiles that miss their targets. Trump has explicitly said that he's in favor of collateral damage when attacking terrorists. He's also said that he'll bomb oil wells and put boots on the ground to take oil. Transparency maybe, but if so he's being transparent about the fact that he'll do all the things you said you dislike.