• DaddleDew@lemmy.world
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    He’s already threatening to escalate to a kinetic war and then returns to threaten a trade war which he already started.

    Is that supposed to be the master negotiator?

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    Are there any countries left he hasn’t levied tariffs against? I believe the penguins are still quaking in their flippers…

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    This motherfucker has lost his fucking mind. He is so desperate to distract from the Epstein files that he is trying to start WW3.

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    That sounds less like diplomacy and more like pressure politics. Greenland isn’t a bargaining chip, and using tariffs to force support would probably just strain alliances instead of strengthening them.

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      Pressure politics is part of diplomacy.

      That being said, the US effectively doesn’t have any allies any more. Sure there’s still alliances on paper, but Trump doesn’t care about agreements and everyone knows it. But we’re in a bit of an awkward dance where countries don’t want Trump to know that they know the US no longer considers any country an ally. Just buying time to shift everything away from the US.

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        also, mostly just trying to outlast him in the vain hope for a “return to normal” when he croaks.

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      For some reason he really wants the US to become completely isolated from the rest of the world. I don’t understand Putin’s long game here.

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        The US has been the guarantor of many nations’ security for decades. If they secede from the world, in the insecurity they leave behind, Russia and its friends can hoover up whichever weak states they want.

        That is assuming that no-one else (i.e. the EU) steps up and supports those nations which Russia and China have their eyes on.

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    No one can escape punishment from a mentally deranged felon. He even murdered his closest friend over some files, so take that as you will.

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    Why is news site reporting what the rapist terrorist said? Who gives a flying fuck what threats a felon gives?

    Kim Jong Un wants you not to piss in his coffee. You laugh, you don’t give it a fucking headline.

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    Yeah I’m sure they’re really worried.

    Imagine how screwed we’d all be if he had a whole IQ point.

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    About fucking time, we need a degree of decentralization from the US. There absolutely was no need to make US the central hub of nearly everything in this first place, all this basically proved that they where the superpower. Now this time long centralized structure is being tested - and hopefully it dissolves.