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The North Korean nucelear+missile programs are a tangible example of how Obama was the right leader. Under Obama these programs spun their wheels without tract
by paulmd 9y ago
The North Korean nucelear+missile programs are a tangible example of how Obama was the right leader. Under Obama these programs spun their wheels without traction for 8 solid years thanks to a huge amount of covert action from our intelligence agencies. Missiles blew up, centrifuges didn't work, etc, and all with little to no loss of American life.
Under Trump they are not taken seriously and they have made significant progress in less than a year, and it's quite probable that military intervention will be necessary before Trump's term is up. It's well-known in the IC and Congress that Trump is a childlike senile fool who has no real grasp of any issue that can't be summarized in 160 characters. Certainly foreign leaders are well aware of it, ask Merkel what she thinks about him, let alone the less scrupulous countries like Saudi Arabia that are openly playing to it.
People don't appreciate how many things were quietly going right under Obama, and now the world's trouble spots are being allowed to fester under Trump. Some career State Department roles are down 60% in less than a year. Putin picked a great leader for his purposes, American leadership in the world has been diminished significantly and the basic machinery of our government is grinding to a halt. A+++ would hack again.
(of course there's no evidence that vote tallies were changed... yet. But the Trump campaign coordinated heavily with Russia and virtually everything short of changing vote tallies has been confirmed, so I just wouldn't be surprised to hear it at this point. There were quite a few "surprise wins" that nobody expected. It's quite likely that it can never be proved either way, thanks to the lack of paper trails and the active purge of some electronic records by state governments.)
- chiefalchemist 9y ago> "People don't appreciate how many things were quietly going right under Obama..." Yes, but quietly works both ways. - Fracking hockey stick'ed on Obama's watch. In the context of climate change that's unimaginable. - Wall Street consolidated it's power (8 major banks down to 7) and there was no significant response. Not single WS exec was prosecuted after the 2008 crash. - The usage of drones - built by the MIC led by the CIA - increased as a proxy for foreign policy under Obama. Those civilian deaths, of which there are plenty, will eventually come back to haunt the USA. - Snowden happened on Obama's watch and the response... (editorial) I don't feel any safer, nor my rights any more protected. - BLM was on BO's watch and plenty of influential figures have been critical of Obama's response. - Flint MI happened on Obama's watch. A local issue perhaps but when the greatest country in the history of the world poisons its own with lead and the POTUS just gives another "that's not who we are speech" something isn't right. Finally, the USA empire has been on the decline for sometime. Neither Trump nor HRC were going to stop that slide. I'm not picking on Obama. He did a good job all in all. What concerns me is how willing the media has been not to paint the complete picture on some very significant issues / events. Things that will having a long lasting impact on the future of the USA, as well as the world.