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It's really tiring seeing the HN enlightened conservatives talking as if there is a coherent policy here. Withdrawing military support for Ukraine alone might b
by creato 2y ago
It's really tiring seeing the HN enlightened conservatives talking as if there is a coherent policy here. Withdrawing military support for Ukraine alone might be reasonable, I disagree with it but I can see the sense in it.
But Trump is absolutely wrecking every relationship we have in the world, trading or otherwise, except with Russia, where he wants to remove sanctions and increase trade.
Even if you disregard all "moral" foreign policy objectives, like deterring wars of territorial expansion, it makes zero sense in economic terms. We're abandoning >>50% of world markets in exchange for access to... Russia's market? What do they even have to offer that we want? Oil or gas? We already produce more than we consume! Trading more with Russia will only kill domestic oil and gas producers and accomplish almost nothing else.
It makes zero sense, it will never make sense, stop trying to make it make sense.
- ndidowneb 2y agodo you legitimately believe this administration is just doing things at random with no plan or thought whatsoever?
- inverted_flag 2y agoYes
- judahmeek 2y agoYes: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/doge-elon-musk-18f-elimination-efficiency/681894/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/doge-...
- silverquiet 2y agoIs it really that difficult to believe? When you see a crazy person on the street yelling into the air, do you think that there must be someone there that he can see that you cannot?
- butterlettuce 2y agoNon-sequitur A crazy person yelling at nothing on the streets is not the same as a president with a suit and tie inside theWhiteHouse.
- cratermoon 2y agoBut put him in a suit and tie and in a chair behind the Resolute Desk and what do you have?
- darthrupert 2y agoSure. The other crazy idiot has power.
- insane_dreamer 2y agoYeah. There is very little evidence of coherency.
- 1915cb1f 2y agoYes absolutely definitely
- kennysoona 2y agoIt's clear as day and I'm incredibly skeptical of anyone that wants to claim otherwise and try and defend an emotional overgrown child's actions as rational.
- klipt 2y agoThere is a plan being realized here: Putin's. Trump is doing everything Putin wants.
- gloosx 2y agodo you legitimately believe any administration is planning and doing things for everyone's good? for the nation? for the people? the only plan is to abuse the power they got, oppress and plunder the people. for the 4 years. in the name of people's will.
- insane_dreamer 2y agoAlso increasing military support for an even more entangled crisis - Israel.
- dialup_sounds 2y agoTrump posting AI generated videos of himself and Netanyahu on the beach in a gilded Gaza resort suggests that he does not see it as entangled.
- 7bit 2y agoThere is a plan. Don't try to make him look like an idiot who has no clue. This is dangerous. It's calculated and everybody around him has to start understat his motivations to defend themselves.
- exmicrosoldier 2y agoThe plan is everybody but Trump loses.