Some members here have decided Trump’s Foreign “Policy” is Idiotic and therefore he is an IDIOT .
……….Jeff Childers Explains Trump’s Foreign Policy Bull in a China Shop Tactics………
Since assuming control of the most militarily powerful country in the world, if not the history of the planet, President Trump has tossed out several colorful, colonizing concepts: forcefully repurposing the Panama Canal, grabbing Greenland, converting Canada into the 51st state, and this week, the President casually tossed out his shocking plan to just take a “long-term ownership interest” in Gaza, to build a giant, U.S.-owned, Trump-themed Mediterranean seaside resort. Headline from Thursday’s New York Times:

So far, though, US troops have yet to descend on Panama, Canada, Greenland, or Gaza. But in the feverish imaginations of Trump’s triggered, hysterical adversaries, full-scale military invasions are already underway.
In other words, Trump has created a climate where everyone is eager to talk to us, to negotiate, to halt these hypothetical, earth-shaking moves that would totally upset the existing world order. Without deploying a single soldier, Trump has already succeeded at preparing the bargaining battlespace in his adversaries minds.
With me so far? Now consider how profoundly these theoretical acts of American aggression impact the discussion over Ukraine.
? “Russian aggression,” a vomitous mantra endlessly repeated ad nauseam until we can all hear it in our sleep, has been the primary narrative fuel for NATO and the Biden Administration. Here’s just one of millions of examples, this one from the Biden Administration’s Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe’s website:

Here’s the puzzle: how can NATO or the U.S. complain of Russian territorial aggression against Ukraine when Trump is going around laying claim to every hotspot on the planet? Trump has skillfully re-framed the entire debate, returning the argument to where it always should have been: a debate over the validity of security interests.
In other words, Trump is upending the Deep State’s narrative. He’s scrambling the virtue-signaling moral framework that has long underpinned Western opposition to Russia’s actions in Ukraine.
President Trump has already accomplished two key strategies: First, he’s forced NATO and the EU into an uncomfortable contradiction, explaining their delusional discussions of sending troops to Greenland. But if they argue that territorial integrity is sacred, how can they justify even discussing taking invasive measures to defend against Trump’s hypothetical Greenland grab?
But on the other hand, if they acquiesce and admit that great powers sometimes act in their own security interests, then Russia’s Ukraine strategy suddenly becomes an arguably legitimate act of state security rather than a one-sided moral transgression.
Second, Trump has reset the negotiating table in his favor. Whether or not he actually intends to follow through with any of these controversial ideas, the mere discussion forces his opponents to negotiate on his terms. Europe, whiplashed, is now occupied with talking about how to respond to the U.S., rather than how to dictate terms to Russia, China, or Iran. And Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to protect its own security interests is fading away in the fog of hysteria over Trump’s hypothetical invasions of Panama, Canada, Greenland, and Gaza.
NATO’s delirious debate over Greenland shows how Trump is successfully shaping reality through sheer force of narrative. NATO is walking right into Trump’s trap, a giant, Gulf of America-sized rake carefully laid in the grass just outside Brussels.
I respectfully suggest that Trump’s “crazy” ideas about U.S. territorial expansion were always intended to lubricate the conclusions to the Proxy War and the Middle East conflicts. It is 5-D narrative chess.
? Finally, it’s worth noting that Trump’s strategy is the exact opposite of how Biden and previous U.S. administrations handled foreign policy. Instead of launching drone strikes, deploying massive (and ineffective) sanctions, and dumping billions into unwinnable proxy wars, Trump is using cheap rhetorical and inexpensive symbolic dominance—which are less costly, less risky, and —so far— much more effective.
Today’s roundup described only part of the terrific news this week. It was rake after rake after rake. You’d think the Swamp’s bloody nose would start getting its attention at some point. Onwards.
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