GUEST BLOG: Dave Brownz – Trump Plays with Fire in Korea
Trump is reviving Bush junior’s bellicose approach to the DPRK which carries great risks for the whole world.
Trump is reviving Bush junior’s bellicose approach to the DPRK which carries great risks for the whole world.
…if the papers reveal a plot to assassinate its own President, in one move Trump could kill off any loyalty to the Republic and replace it with himself. Previous Presidents might have decided that such information would be too destructive to the establishment to ever release, Trump wouldn’t care.
…The US intelligence apparatus could not prove that the Syrians had committed a chemical attack, but that didn’t matter to Trump, he went ahead with a military strike regardless.
The latest rollback of the Obama presidency’s easing of relations with Cuba as a deepening of the blockade, now in place for 54 years, should be condemned.
Trump’s mix of corrupt capitalism, brittle ego and aggressive neurotic defensiveness makes trying to derive motive from his behaviour extremely difficult, and I think while Comey’s testimony is completely true and factual, the crazy shit that floats through the President’s mind which he can use to defend his comments makes impeaching him successfully an extremely unlikely event.
In short, Paris was a complete failure to begin with because it simply did not go anywhere near far enough. Trump pulling out is the least of our concerns.
It is almost impossible to keep up with the madness of Trump over the last 2 weeks, but his trip to Saudi Arabia has to be the most fucking surreal thing I’ve ever witnessed in my life.
The hypocrisy of blaming Islamic extremism when it’s American foreign policy that fuels most of that righteous grievance and then signing weapons deals with one of the main instigators of that extremism is beyond any sane persons ability to comprehend.
The current loop in liberal news media is that Trump is mere seconds away from being impeached for any number of the self inflicted mutilations the President has bewilderingly managed to find himself in daily. I think removing Trump from office is a dangerous fantasy for a number of reasons.
You can barely keep up with the madness. Trump now threatens just ending press briefings altogether…