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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrumps one consistent policy: Chaos
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-one-consistent-policy-chaos/2016/12/06/f1a5a5ae-bbf7-11e6-91ee-1adddfe36cbe_story.html?utm_term=.87fb9c3ce2f8Is America becoming a rogue state?
The State Department stopped using the term years ago to describe the likes of Iran and North Korea, figuring it was needlessly provocative. But it would seem the incoming Trump administration plans to handle its affairs domestic and foreign in a manner that meets the dictionary definition of a rogue state as one that conducts its policy in a dangerously unpredictable way.
Even before Donald Trump threw Sino-American relations into a new round of turmoil by speaking with the Taiwanese leader and by trolling a nation of 1.4 billion people on Twitter, Trump and his team set off new chaos between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan, with Trump praising the repressive regime of the latter and pledging to visit, while a member of his transition team told the former that Trump supports designating Pakistan a terrorist haven.
Trump snubbed our closest ally, Britain, by having post-election calls with nine foreign leaders before granting British Prime Minister Theresa May the honor. He shattered protocol by suggesting Britain name Nigel Farage, the Brexit leader, ambassador to the United States. Meanwhile, NATO leaders meeting in Brussels this week were on edge about Trumps coziness with Russia and his dismissive words about the alliance.
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Trumps one consistent policy: Chaos (Original Post)
Bill USA
Dec 2016
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KT2000
(20,571 posts)1. it will be impossible
to deal with one thing at a time because we will be surrounded by chaos. Clever strategy - how to form opposition when everything is being torn apart. especially our sense of security.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,838 posts)2. Emulating his hero
Kim Jung Un
Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)3. as long he can profit, chaos is good for him
I really don't know how long that will work though