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Hauler

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Kneeblock said:
What new approach? Hostility? Accommodation and normalization? The latter was the approach during the Obama administration, but Bush took the exact same hardline tack Trump has, famously adding NK to his "axis of evil" narrative. We saw how Clinton tried to balance the two culminating in the speech above, but that backfired too. Even now, most analysts of the North agree that they will play act the disarmament process until they get much needed supplies for their populace then re-engage in nuclearization. It's a never ending shell game and Trump's proclamations on the foreign policy of this administration have been both all over the map and contradicted at times by his own Secretary of State. The official policy at present seems to be sanctions with openness to direct talks, but the North is talking with the South mostly. End of the day, I welcome less nuclear weapons in the world, but it's the two Koreas I'll be thanking if they abandon the project, not the US. It was the same with Iran during the Obama administration. Moderates in Iran won a difficult political battle. The US just rushed to claim credit while showering those moderates with gifts. Sadly, that deal may end up a bust, though Europe is desperately trying to save it.
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I honestly don't care who gets credit. I just don't want any lunatics pressing the red button. It's a dangerous game of chicken.
 
Freeloading Rusty

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‘Brutal’ Canada has ‘outsmarted our politicians for decades,’ Trump says
U.S. President Donald Trump took another shot at Canada’s trade practices Saturday, alleging that Canadian leaders have taken advantage of bumbling American politicians “for decades.”

“Canada’s brutal. Canada’s really tough,” Trump said during a rambling speech on behalf of a Republican candidate, Rick Saccone, who is running in Tuesday’s hotly contested special House of Representatives election in western Pennsylvania.

“We have a big deficit with Canada, too,” Trump continued, though his own Council of Economic Advisers acknowledged in its recent annual report that, as Canadian officials have repeatedly said, the U.S. actually has a trade surplus with Canada.

“They send in timber, they send in steel, they send in a lot of things. But our farmers in Wisconsin are not treated well when we want to send things to them,” Trump said.

That appeared to be a reference to an obscure trade dispute about ultrafiltered milk, a high-protein concentrate sometimes used to make cheese and yogurt.

“Hey, and I don’t blame them. Why should I blame them? Because they just outsmarted our politicians for decades. And I don’t mean Obama — I mean all of them. Since Bush the first. And that includes — I mean that includes a lot of territory. Frankly, Ronald Reagan … For many, many years they’ve been outsmarting us.”
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Sessions is next in this game of musical chairs.

What an absolute clusterfuck of an administration.

I wouldn't be surprised if he fired Kushner and Ivanka by 2020.
 
Daglord

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Truck Party said:
the reports I read said Tillerson was informed last Friday that he'd be let go
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maybe, but he had to know how he felt. I do agree this has been in the works. I think Tillerson was too diplomatic for Trump & his hawkish cabinet. Pompeo fits like a glove. He'd have Bolton in there if he had his way.

& holy shit @ naming Haspel CIA head, could he have made a worse choice? (Pompeo was close).

Tillerson's deputy claims he hadn't spoken to Trump before the firing & it's rumored he found out over Twitter.
 
RaginCajun

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Trump ousts Tillerson, will replace him as secretary of state with CIA chief Pompeo:

President Trump said Tuesday he has ousted Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and plans to nominate CIA Director Mike Pompeo to replace him as the nation’s top diplomat, orchestrating a major change to his national security team amid delicate outreach such as possible talks with North Korea.

As Tillerson traveled through Africa, White House chief of staff John F. Kelly called to wake him up in the wee hours there Saturday to alert him that he would soon be replaced and to return to Washington as soon as possible, White House officials said.

Tillerson cut his trip short Monday to fly home, and his spokesman said Tuesday that the secretary of state was “unaware of the reason” for his firing and had not spoken directly with Trump.
Trump ousts Tillerson, will replace him as secretary of state with CIA chief Pompeo
 
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It seems that everyone who actually reads the Iran deal thinks it's good...

except the Big Orange Retard.

Edit - Actually, I doubt Trump has read it
 
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