Teddy Roosevelt famously described his foreign policy was to walk softly and carry a big stick. It appears Trump practices the reverse with both his Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and National Security Adviser John Bolton speaking boldly with the belief that the threat of military action carries the fear that it used to before North Vietnam showed revolutionaries to the contrary, that their will could outlast our political will to continue. Instead of fear sending the Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group to Iran generates a laugh with a retort of yeah and now what that diminishes our might to that of a clown.
Where are the French? They resisted George W. Bush’s foray into Iraq why not Donald J. Trump’s renunciation of the Iran Nuclear Deal? It makes no sense they obey our U.S. Dollar sanctions against them when it was us that broke the deal not them. It makes no sense that they tolerate Trump’s trade war as if they were enemy and does not lead Europe in a negotiation with China over trade and Iran’s sanctions with a unified approach which uses the Euro to replace the Dollar and Airbus to replace Boeing.
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