Re: Fwd: stew

On 2025-05-10, Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:

On 2025-05-10 4:51 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:

On 2025-05-09, Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:

On 2025-05-09 5:41 p.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:

On 2025-05-09, Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:

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It's not just one deranged man. There is a pattern of it. The Trumpster
is an extreme example of it. Let us not forget that enough Americans
voted for him that we one the election.  The vast majority of people
outside of the US view him as a raving lunatic. Americans voted for him
to be their president.

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Only one deranged man is in a position to keep changing US policies.
Everybody else is just along for the ride.
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He is not the only one. Go back a little over a hundred years when the
US had an isolationist policy and would not get involved in WWI until
our mutual enemies menaced the US and finally did the right thing.  The
US, IMO had way too much influence in the formulation of the treaty of
Versailles but Wilson got his way. Then the US refused to ratify it.
Back to the isolationism as Germany rearmed and threatened again they
would not fully support its former Allies..... until Japan attacked them
and Germany declared war.  After the war they would not support France
against the Vietminh. They supported a plan to have a vote on Vietnamese
reunification. They were all set for a democratic vote... until they
realized the communists would win  followed by years and years of
American involvement before abandoning their Vietnamese allies.
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They backed Saddam Hussein when he was fighting Iran. They gave them
satellite intelligence on Iranian positions to help them enhance the
targeting of the enemy forces.  After about a decade Saddam was the bad
guy that they allowed to invade Kuwait before going in to evict him from
Kuwait. Then about a decade later invaded Iraq to rid Saddam of the
alleged arsenal of WMDs that weapons inspectors insisted did not exist.
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Face it, American foreign policy is like tumble weed that changes
direction with the wind.
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As I pointed out, it was Reagan who pushed  for NAFTA. It was
implemented under Bush..... both Republicans. Then it was the Moron who
insisted it be renegotiated, and now he doesn't like the deal he
negotiated. Sure, he may he the one who is doing it this time, but is is
part of a pattern with the US.

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Yes, you're right, Dave.  The U.S. is responsible for every shitty
thing that ever happened in the world.  No other country bears
any responsibility.

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   Really? That is your read on things.

 That is my sarcasm on things.
 

The US has done some good
things, but you guys need to get over yourselves. You are not the only
democracy in the world and you

 Me?  Cindy Hamilton?
 

act as of you are the only country with
individual rights, even as we are wondering what happened to them these
days. I pointed out a series of major policies that the US has flip
flopped on.
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We have this current trade war bullshit that the US started. Your leader
has decided that Canada and the US have been taking advantage of under
the current North American free trade deal, the deal that Trump demanded
and got just 6 years ago. T

 I think we both agree that Trump is a senile, narcissistic asshole.