So much as happened with this election……so much that the media has missed completely until it was too late…..there is a wave of populism that few saw coming…..
I am not a Trump supporter by any stretch of the imagination…..but he has done a few things that I can appreciate. He has challenged the powers that be on foreign policy and the war hawks are running scared,,,,his ideas may seem like isolationism but they are something else…..what? I am not too sure just yet.
What is the hardest thing for me because I am a devotee of international relations, is to try and figure out what is it that Trump is proposing for the US foreign policy if he is elected……
A great article….but was little help for me but it could help my readers understand the foreign policy of Donald Trump…..
The candidacy of Donald J. Trump has upended American politics, and, indeed, has changed the political landscape in ways our liberal and conservative elites never expected and clearly abhor. He talks like an ordinary person, for one thing – a rarity in a realm where politicians routinely speak as if they are giving a speech […]
Source: The Trump Challenge – Antiwar.com Original by — Antiwar.com
He will surround himself with a brain trust of academics who will act as foreign policy advisers and in the end he will adopt a more isolationist policy than we have been used to but I believe he will consider the advice of his egg heads to a great degree and will maintain a workable pragmatism in world affairs that will strive to allow America to receive something worthwhile in return for what She gives out to the rest of the world. No more freebies at the taxpayer expense. America gives something She has to receive something of value in return. His being a businessman is what inspires me to think in these terms.
I agree. We can’t afford it.
From the neocons that I have seen on his “team” we are in for more blood shed.
Anybody who has the ‘appearance’ of being different than the current crop of candidates will appeal to a voting public sick and tired of all the lies and bs…. because most are beginning to understand they are being played, though it’s mostly exhibited as a confused sense of frustration & anger at the government at large. A lot of folks are starting to, mostly unconsciously, get a bad feeling about everything they see happening around them…
It seems to me to be a pretty moot point, anyway, as I’m of the firm belief that ANYONE who WANTS to be President, or, any elected office in today’s culture, is clearly sociopathic, and should never have been allowed to come off their medication….
If they’re all crazy, how can we expect any of them to exhibit rational behavior?
Just ain’t gonna happen. Anybody who wants to get into politics has already gone ’round the bend; there’s no hope for them…
Or for any of us, for that matter, as long as we continue to pursue this farce….
gigoid, the dubious
Yep no more statesmen just ego freaks on a rush…