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[SanAndreasX]

shavenferret said:

the-pi-guy said:

Sure, that's why Trump is so careful to not say anything stupid like windmill sounds causing cancer. 

Donald Trump has an extremely infantile view of what "respect and admiration" mean. To Trump, an enemy that sucks up to him to his face, regardless of any back stabbing, is better than an ally who acts like an equal. 

To the rest of the world with any sanity, even if he is legitimately joking about these things, already views him as someone who does not deserve any respect and admiration.

People that want to be genuinely respected in any kind of mature sense, learn from what they've done and adapt. They don't double down on their idiocy, with more serious threats of action. 

The people that take this seriously are just bored and don't have anything of substance to discuss.  And I believe that not everything a politician says should be taken seriously, especially by someone who turns spectacle into an art form.  

This is the very definition of the slippery slop fallacy, chicken little kind of stuff.   

I'd sooner beleive the kind of thing in the attached gif than trump wanting to annex another nation by force or pressure: 

Easy for people in the U.S. to say. When it’s the head of state of a country with a long history of engaging in military intervention under spurious pretexts making these threats, you can bet that Canadians, Panamanians, and Europeans will take it seriously. Both Canada and Panama have been on the receiving end of U.S. military intervention, after all. It’s also being echoed by members of the majority party in the lawmaking body of that country, who have the right to declare war. This is the international relations version of yelling “fire” in a crowded movie theater, whether falsely or not.

Regardless of whether the convicted felon makes good on his threats, this is going to screw up international relations for decades to come. International relations are built on trust, and that trust is being eroded.