Donald Trumps Phone Conversation With the Leader of Pakistan Was Reckless and Bizarre
Source: TIME
According to a readout of the conversation from the Pakistani authorities, he apparently agreed to visit the country and said he was “ready and willing to play any role that you want me to play to address and find solutions to the outstanding problems.” He reportedly added: “You are a terrific guy. You are doing amazing work which is visible in every way.” The hilarity of his hyperbole aside, Trump’s intervention could have serious consequences for both regional and global stability.
First, a quick summary: since the British quit the subcontinent in 1947, India and Pakistan have fought four wars, of which three have been over the northern region of Kashmir. Heavily militarized, and divided between the two by a de facto border called the Line of Control (LoC), Kashmir is claimed in its entirely by both New Delhi and Islamabad. With tensions in the region climbing again in recent months, another war, many fear, could potentially go nuclear. Against this backdrop, Washington has a particularly tricky balancing act to negotiate if it is to help maintain stability.
Ties with Islamabad have deteriorated in recent years, with questions about Pakistan’s role in abetting terror groups souring relations. But although military and economic aid to Pakistan has been cut, reflecting U.S. frustration with Islamabad’s support for anti-American insurgent outfits such as the Taliban, the cord hasn’t been severed; Pakistan continues to receive hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. financial support, and some in Washington question whether America can afford to walk away.
Washington has clearly been cultivating a regional counterweight to China, India’s powerful northern neighbor. China has noticed, and has correspondingly been building links with Pakistan. In fact, as Obama landed in India, China rolled out the red carpet for Pakistan’s then military chief, who was visiting Beijing. Around the same time, a commentary in the Global Times, a Chinese newspaper with close government ties, warned against what it called the West’s “ulterior motives” in deepening links with India
Read more: http://time.com/4587069/donald-trump-pakistan-phone-call-nawaz-sharif/
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dumpf is a terrible man, he is not even pResident yet and he is reaching out to these countries another nuclear country too.
The Deplorable is unfit to be president in every way.
This is the first time in my life that I've really worried about our national security. And the worry is not so much from outside, but from INSIDE our country: from the people who supposedly (I confess that I am still in denial) will soon occupy the White House. There is, first of all, Trump. And then to advise him on national security, the traitorous, unstable, Dr. Strangelove-like Flynn. And maybe the convicted (and insufficiently punished) traitor Petraeus as well. And all the rest of them.
that any potential "world leader" could possibly be so stupid, so evidently obsequious. It was nauseating.
We should be prepared to be embarrassed on a regular basis at a global level.
these world leaders must be laughing their asses off at this fucking buffoonish clown potusfuhrer-in-waiting. I can hear them now laughing about how ameriKKKa has finally gotten its comeuppence for the generations of hidden racism and even more, that we have shown that ignorant voters that stayed in the background until a fascist leader raised his snake head to become the idiot leader of the idiot trumpfuhrer voters, are LEGION. AmeriKKKa has fallen to the lowest common denominator as the POS potusfuhrer-in-waiting has proved.
Whatever god there may be, we are beyond help. Don't even try to save us. Do better to start all over.
