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> The US and all of its allies are still allies. This may be true but the actions of the Trump administration have many allies questioning how reliable the US
by knz 10y ago
> The US and all of its allies are still allies.
This may be true but the actions of the Trump administration have many allies questioning how reliable the US is. That's not "stirring the pot" - it's potentially a significant shift in the world order and a decrease in how effective our foreign relations are.
The public allegations and concern expressed by our allies and own intelligence agencies should give everyone some concern regardless of one's political leanings.
- coldtea 10y ago>This may be true but the actions of the Trump administration have many allies questioning how reliable the US is. As compared to the actions of the previous administrations, like bombing in eastern Europe, invading several countries, and royally fucking up Middle East etc, while constantly pushing Russia in the corner in cold war like rhetoric (for doing 1/10 of what they did, and in its actual bordering countries after) all in the span of 20 years?
- knz 10y agoI'm not sure how this relates to US allies questioning the reliability of the US? Our allies (as a country not necessarily it's population) are usually involved in the same conflict and support the same worldview towards Russia. It's been widely reported that allies are increasingly military spending and reassessing defense strategies after comments/actions by Trump.
- madgar 10y agoWidely reported by fake news! Any and all media with few exceptions* is the enemy of the United States now, of course they say those things. * InfoWars, RT and Breitbart excluded
- dagenleg 10y agoAre you rabid?
- madgar 10y agoNo I just follow POTUS on twitter
- FreakyT 10y agoI suspect the parent comment was meant as sarcasm, but in line with Poe's law, it's unclear without some kind of notation.
- madgar 10y agoComments like that on social media are going to make it awfully tough for you to re-enter the US, we don't need any more traitors.
- dang 10y ago> we don't need any more traitors Obviously you can't comment like this here. We've banned this account. Please stop creating accounts to break HN's guidelines with.
- dang 10y agoCommenting like this will get your account banned regardless of how wrong someone else is, so please don't do it again.
- dagenleg 10y agoOh. I guess for a moment I forgot I was not on reddit. Sorry about that.
- westbywest 10y agoExcluding the Russian state media outlet RT from the "enemies of the United States" group, while including local media outlets you presumably disagree with, seems pretty fallacious. To put it mildly.
- eli_gottlieb 10y agoPlease include a sarcasm marker where appropriate.
- madgar 10y agoI don't see why repeating the US's current governing party line requires a sarcasm tag. 40% of American voters agree with everything I'm saying and they decide what the US government does
- coldtea 10y ago>Our allies (as a country not necessarily it's population) are usually involved in the same conflict and support the same worldview towards Russia. That's because they have been in bed with US interests (as countries, not necessarily as populations) since the Cold War.
- herbst 10y agoNot sure why you are grayed out. From what i can tell you are absolutely right. Before that america was usually discussed as some "crazy big brother" kind of position, especially since they started bombing and droning civils it went more to "evil big brother" but still a big brother. From what i can tell the public view changed since the election and the U.S. is seen as some kind of possible threat for our society and economy.
- dagenleg 10y agoBig Brother indeed.
- idiot_stick 10y ago>the actions of the Trump administration have many allies questioning how reliable the US is. Thankfully the real decision makers aren't going to toss away decades of political good-will and foreign relations because of 3 weeks of blowhard political posturing.
- macintux 10y agos/3 weeks/1.5 years/ Trump has been making it clear for a long time that he doesn't care about following the rules. He may not have a firm grip on reality, but he's consistently prioritized short-term interests of his view of America over long-term global stability.