Trump, on the campaign trail, had a much better foreign policy than Kamala. But Trump is not a consistent person. He keeps changing his foreign policy. At this point no one even knows what his foreign policy is anymore. Schizo Trump's foreign policy is not better than Kamala's.
When Trump came into office, Israel and the Gaza Strip had negotiated a ceasefire. All he had to do was demand Netanyahu continue implementing the ceasefire deal. Instead he let Israel go buck wild, and now the genocide, which had stopped, is back in full progress again. The children are back to starving. The hospitals are back to bombed. The people are back to dying. Why? What was wrong with peace?
Trump promised to end the Ukraine war in 24 hours. Instead he has refused to grant Russia's completely moderate and sensible demands, prolonging the war indefinitely, while still sending more weapons and money to Ukraine. Trump admits that Ukraine and Biden started the war, and that Russia is responding like any reasonable state would to a hostile military buildup on its border which the USA would never allow on its border, but still keeps arming the Ukrainians and giving them satellite guidance for their long range weapons.
All Russia ever wanted was for Ukraine to follow its own constitution and international law which it had signed -- for elections, not coups or martial law, to determine the government of Ukraine. For the constitutional provisions Ukraine initially became independent under to not be revoked -- that it would be a neutral, de-nuclearized state, and that it would treat ethnic Russians, the Russian language, the Russian Orthodox church, and Russian culture equally. That it would actually prosecute mass murdering Nazis who burn innocents to death instead of give them high positions in government. That the Minsk Accords would be followed, instead of duplicitously signed without any intention of ever being followed, as openly admitted by both the leaders of Ukraine, France and Germany.
As a result of having to go to war to protect these things which should have been taken for granted as the most minimal demands of any state anywhere on Earth, Russia had to escalate its demands -- now it needed Ukraine to hand over the Russian majority territory which wished to be free of Ukraine's genocidal tyranny, and it needed Ukraine to demilitarize so that it could no longer threaten Russia in the future. These are obvious demands anyone would make when bordering a terrorist state known for its rape-torture-murder of innocents. But again Trump refuses to accept these peace terms.
America demanded the demilitarization of Japan and that Japan hand over massive territories to China, Korea, Russia, etc. as a result of losing World War II. Why are the much more modest demands Russia is making to Ukraine unacceptable? Because Ukraine hasn't lost the war yet? But Trump himself admits Ukraine will lose the war at this rate. So why would you wait until every last Ukrainian is killed before signing the same peace agreement you could sign now?
Trump's policy on Taiwan is equally schizophrenic. Let's assume that Trump supports Ukraine's territorial integrity. Okay, so why doesn't he support China's territorial integrity? At the end of World War II the USA signed a treaty that handed possession of Taiwan over from Japan to China. Legally speaking, Taiwan is part of China. This is indisputable. So why are we defending Taiwan from China, selling them weapons to fight China with?
Alternatively, if Trump supports self-determination, and that's why he supports the freedom loving Taiwanese, why is he fighting Russia and defending Ukraine? All the provinces Russia is trying to wrest free of Ukraine's tyrannical grip have already voted in referendums to join Russia!
But to make matters worse, it is America's declared foreign policy to be schizophrenic when it comes to Taiwan. We say there is only 'one China' but also say that Taiwan has the right to be completely independent from the rest of China. It's like talking to a Christian who insists there are both 3 Gods and 1 God.
Trump randomly started bombing the Houthis, demanding they stop blockading ships that were headed to Israel, threatening that if they didn't stop they would be 'annihilated.' Getting us involved in a war that had nothing to do with us, in favor of the genocidal Israel when, if anything, he should have sided with the Houthis. Then, earlier this week, he announced the Houthis had 'capitulated' by agreeing not to attack US ships, and therefore America would stop bombing them. Only the Houthis had never been attacking US ships to begin with until we started bombing them! All that happened is the Houthis returned to their status quo of blockading Israel while ignoring us. What happened to annihilating the Houthis? What happened to Trump's word? America's honor? We achieved none of our goals and then surrendered. What madness is this?
Now Trump is threatening to destroy Iran if they don't de-nuclearize. There are several problems with this, the first being that all sovereign states have the right to civilian nuclear energy under international law. It isn't grounds for starting an aggressive war if someone somewhere opens up a nuclear plant, like 100 other countries all across the world have done.
People have claimed Iran is secretly making a nuclear bomb, which would be in violation of international law, but they've been claiming that for over 30 years now. It's a tired claim with no evidence. You can't start a war on the basis of 30-year-old rumors that have never borne fruit. You would think if it were true that Iran would have figured out how to actually build one by now. The fact that they haven't is proof positive that they were never secretly developing a bomb to begin with.
But let's say they are secretly making a nuclear bomb. There is no reason to selectively target Iran then, is there? Because Israel also secretly made nuclear bombs against international law. They still are in violation of the nuclear non-proliferation act. So if you want to get all fussy over secret nuclear bomb development programs, why not start bombing Israel? Why not demand Israel de-nuclearize? They're clearly more in violation of the law than Iran!
But Israel is good so it can have nukes but Iran is evil so it can't? On what basis is Israel a better country than Iran? Israel is currently bragging about starving a million children to death in Gaza. They are attempting a new Holodomor and they're not even hiding it. It's openly admitted that they're blocking all food aid to Gaza! So if the principle is we must stop evil countries from getting nuclear weapons, again we should be bombing Israel, not Iran!
And no, getting hit by a terrorist attack that kills 1,000 people does not mean you get a Holodomor-free card. That's insane. By that standard the Holocaust was justified because Jews did terror attacks against Nazi Germany first. (Yes, they did, you can look them up. A Jew assassinated a German officer, which was the cause of the Kristallnacht riots. Jews also attempted a communist takeover of Germany after World War I.)
But to add to the madness, why are we threatening to 'annihilate' Iran when we already tried and failed to 'annihilate' the Houthis? Why don't the Iranians just laugh in our face and tell us to go ahead and try? We have zero persuasiveness. Our reputation is shot. We lost to Yemen. Who fears us now? If Trump wanted to threaten Iran into submission, why did he blow our reputation by surrendering to the Houthis? Who simultaneously tries to threaten people all over the world into submission while also surrendering to one of the weakest and poorest nations on Earth?
I am a huge fan of Trump stopping illegal immigration and affirmative action. I have no complaints on the domestic front. But Trump will do far more damage with his foreign policy than he will heal with his domestic policy, so his domestic policy is largely meaningless at this point. I want nothing to do with his war with Russia, China, Yemen, Palestine and Iran. (Plus Denmark and Canada and Panama and God knows who he'll declare war on next. . .) Can Trump please be removed with the 25th amendment on account of his clear insanity so we can get an actual peacemaker, J.D. Vance in charge?
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