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ORIGINAL: DesideriScuri quote:
ORIGINAL: JVoV Trump has been extremely critical of the UN, and I think most Americans are as well. As for our international aid efforts, we need to take care of Americans first. Puerto Rico is still a disaster. The US Virgin Islands still has 50% without power. Careful. You'll be painted as a racist xenophobe with that 2nd comment. Then, they'll sink even lower and call you a Republican. quote:
I for one would rather see our Army Corp of Engineers working in these territories a while, instead of Africa, The Middle East, or where ever. I'm really unhappy with the way the situation in Nigeria has been handled. We lost troops. Somebody needs to suffer. http://www.usace.army.mil/Missions/ quote:
• Supports Army and Air Force installations. • Provides technical and construction support to more than 100 countries. Of the listed "missions" of the ACE, those are the only two that could be seen as operating outside the US. We already get little to no credit for aid we give/provide other countries. If we pull the USACE out, too, then how will the US look to other countries? President Trump still doesn't understand politics and how to get shit done politically. He's still "presidenting" as a businessman, and financial leverage is a very great source of leverage in the business world. If he doesn't show signs of understanding how politiics work by Summer, I'm not sure he'll ever understand (whether that's because he's not smart enough to get it, he's not open enough to get it, or some combination), and he'll continue to bungle his Presidency. There is still time for him to understand politics and how to get stuff done politically; plenty of time. Trying to bully his way with threats of suspending aid won't work. He's going to have to figure that shit out. I may disagree with Trump's politics (especially since I am one of those hated lefties) but, as you have implied, I suspect the greater damage he is doing to his party, the US political system and the international standing of the US is less his politics than the way he is going about being a politician. Somehow, at some point, he has to figure out how to do business with people and other nations in the political sphere which, as you suggest, is very different to how he has historically conducted his business as a businessman.
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