The Trump Thread

[Zkuq]

BFR said:

Zkuq said:

I'm not seeing how Trump cares about democracy though. He also seems to barely care about NATO. Both of these seem like hindrances at best against Trump. It's definitely a higher threshold to act against allies than others, but he's getting bolder and bolder, and he might reach that threshold at some point. I still don't think he's going for Canada though, because he's not getting Canada without a full-scale war, and that's going to be risky without popular support (which, I imagine, doesn't exists for such a war). Greenland though? It's up for grabs, as far as a military response goes. What other response there might be is the real hindrance.

Does Trump even care about Cuba? Or North Korea? During his first term, he certainly seemed to want to get friendly with North Korea. He seems to have thing for 'strong' leaders, and North Korea definitely has one.

Wasn't Maduro a "strong" leader also?

Trump plays a game of good cop/bad cop.

That's why he cozies up to these guys at first.  But, once they piss him off, they better look out.

Look out Khameini. Look out Kim Jung Un. Look out Vladimir Putin.

Maduro was a dictator but apparently a relatively weak one. His economy was in shambles, military power most likely pitiful compared to the US, popular support poor, and even opposition wasn't doing as badly as in many other countries. Also, not all 'strong' leaders get along, and being supposedly leftist (I think that's what Maduro was - supposedly?) probably doesn't help with Trump.

Trump is definitely letting Putin get away with playing him like the fool that he is. At this rate, Trump will be dead (from old age) before he realizes how Putin is playing him... unless he knows that and simply doesn't dare to play strong against a country like Russia. Trump likes to look strong, but he looks really pathetic in regard to Putin.

I'm sorry, but I don't really agree at all with your view about Trump. I think he's just an old man intoxicated by power, yet he's using all that power to prey on the weak.To anyone strong, it's all TACO. All he cares about is looking strong and productive, but he will probably be looked back to as a fool in the future: in ten years, the US will probably be either a dictatorship and/or worse for the general populace (not that it hasn't gotten worse for a long time anyway, as far as I know).