One of the political commentators on YouTube whom I watch regularly is Phil Moorhouse from the channel A Different Bias. He offers the perspective on global and European news from a British perspective, and thus has insights that cannot be easily gleaned from either American or EU-based sources. And today I learned that British diplomats were present in negotiations with Iran, and they concluded that
- Kushner is clueless, and Witkoff is witless
- Iran posed no immediate threat and was behaving actually reasonably as far as international power politics go.
To me, it looks like the obvious has been confirmed again:
- Trump is an idiot who only succeeded by gulling the circa 30% of Americans by playing on the combination of their bigotries, gullibility, and even greater stupidity than Trump’s.
- Negotiating with Trump is useless; he is a treacherous asshole who will backstab or betray anyone, renege on any deal made, ignore any treaty or law, as long as he thinks he will get away with it. Any agreement with such a person is worthless.
Exactly!
Thank you for seeing and stating this clearly.
And I like Phil’s analyses too.
real question for anybody in the US who does replace these freaks -- how in the earthly fuck can they repair the international damage he’s doing?
trans rights, abortion, science funding, those domestic issues could fare well with a full court press. but we have no control over how other countries perceive us except for our behavior with them and others. any restoration of stable governance here is always just a few years away from another meltdown.
i’m surprised us treasury bonds are worth more than monopoly money, for the moment.
Well it’s a nice detraction from the Epstein files. It’s wag the dog all over again.
Also, last year the US and Israel claimed that they had totally destroyed Iran’s nuclear programm. Now said programm posed an immediate threat? The mullahs must be geniuses!
They basically can’t. A complete repudiation of not just Trump but Trumpism -- by which I mean a really thorough root-and-branch rebuilding of the political culture, equivalent to denazification in Germany, or the Truth and Reconciliation process in post-apartheid South Africa -- would put you in a position to be able to start building a new (and hopefully better) set of international relations, but the post-WWII “Pax Americana” order we all grew up with is gone, no matter how much people are still trying to cling to the wreckage. We’re in for a very difficult and dangerous period of re-alignment.
“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters”
@Bébé Melange, I cannot talk for anyone but myself, and I am not an expert, or even a knowledgeable amateur, when it comes to international politics. But from my vantage point, it seems that the USA’s credibility on the international scene is irrevocably shot. If the country can vote a convicted criminal, an evident narcissist, and apparently demented imbecile into the highest office in the land and let him go away with blatantly illegal and immoral behavior, and that single individual can on a whim, to chose to ignore any and all laws and treaties, then what is the point of dealing with the USA for the future? Unless there is a significant political reform in the USA after the orange shitstain leaves the scene, any country leader would be a fool to tie their country’s future to any American promise because there is no guarantee that today’s promises will be kept tomorrow. After all, the USA electorate has proven itself to be a bunch of fuckin morons, and there is no nice way of saying that.