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Preposterous! Nobody has ever accused Donald Trump of doing a good thing.
He gets accused of wanting to deescalate conflicts, pull out of NATO, and generally refusing to uphold the constant state of war that every single US politician wants. The fact that he isn't ideologically invested in stupid pointless conflicts is literally his only positive quality, so of course it's where a lot of criticism gets directed, in order to uphold the grand American tradition. Of course, he's not actually ideologically opposed to stupid pointless wars, so the machinery still gets to run uninterrupted, but he did at least give us an excellent roast of John Bolton, a notorious hawk.
I wish we could ever get offered a candidate who's actually as isolationist as Trump gets accused of being, but unfortunately he's not it. We got rising tensions and a trade war with China, which Biden normalized, and we got pushed to the brink of WWIII with the assassination of Soleimani, which Biden's also following up by supporting Israel's antics. Voters will never be given any sort of choice or input about such matters, and Trump is no exception, despite what people say.
NATO is a good organisation, it's a defensive organisation.
Thinking that leaving or destroying/weaken NATO is good is just being fooled by the dictators held in check by NATO.
Why don't you tell the Libyans about how "defensive" of an organization NATO is? It's "defensive" in the same way the US department of "defense" has led invasions of countless countries and slaughtered hundreds of thousands of civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Even if that were true, the US is an extremely belligerent and aggressive country, so giving it cover only enables it to act aggressively without fear of repercussions or backlash.
Well clearly you just don't understand that the US has to make a living somehow!
Can't you let a man work?!
US is not NATO. Sheesh.
Well sorta
Libya and Gadaffi was a french operation. But even, yeah just let Russia have its way right.
Literally the first sentence lmao.
Yeah you don't know your history.
By the way, what's your take on Tianmen square and the Uyghurs?
Lmao, you literally only know two events from all of history, don't you?
Its a litmus test, now answer please.
Edit: Busted!
Never been. US News and World Report rates it as the #6 thing to do in Beijing, so I will defer to their take on it. Apparently, the square itself is just a big concrete area but it's nearby some other tourist attractions.
Never met one.
Wtf is y'all's deal with this shit? You bring up these same two things in every conversation, regardless of how completely irrelevant they are, and then if the other person doesn't kowtow you act like you "busted" them? Absolutely bizarre, nonsensical behavior.
Congratulations, you revealed that I'm not a part of your tribe, which I never pretended to be in the first place. I guess now it doesn't matter that I proved you objectively wrong now, because I'm the "other," so your little in-group can write off anything I say, no matter how correct and sourced it is. Blue MAGA shit.
Lol I'm not even american.
You're busted as a CCP boot licker and troll (from .ml so yeah that's a simple one).
I haven't done any trolling at all, nor have I licked any boots. I simply refused to engage with your irrelevant tangent.
All you did was perform a purity test to see if I'm a member of your tribe in order to discredit me, whole deploying thought-terminating cliches to distract from the fact that you were objectively proven wrong.
The tribe of people with integrity, lol
Gonna block you now, nothing will be lost.
Integrity, lmao. Some people just really don't like being proven wrong, I guess.
Liberals are so weird lmfao