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James Quinn's avatar

"Donald Trump is the first American president since 1932 who does not believe in the world America made.”

The real problem is that Donald Trump doesn’t either understand or believe in the country he claims to be making Great Again. His vision is completely controlled by his own narcissism, which has resulted in his ongoing attempts to claim, with Louis XIV. “Etat, c’est moi"

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Aditya Eachempati's avatar

The world 80 years ago was USA, USSR and a whole bunch of broken pieces. There were 2 countries dictating terms to 200 others. I count territories and self governing areas

After 1991 USA alone dictated terms.

ROW was never going to tolerate that permanently.

Americans are too proud to be on equal footing with everyone else. Their view is that they can kill everyone and therefore should rule everyone.

Trump’s transactional approach is what most Americans believe anyway in a world where which they do not set the rules and can break them with impunity occasionally.

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Vel Santic's avatar

your generalized antiAmericanism is a part of the problem, aditya whatever.

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Aditya Eachempati's avatar

How do you define the “problem”?

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Vel Santic's avatar

bigotry, no matter what country-nationality-ethnicity-religion-"culture" that is coming from.

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Aditya Eachempati's avatar

If you’re saying my comment reveals anti-American bigotry, that’s your prerogative.

My comment is based on my very large sample of observations, conversations and revealed attitudes.

It’s neither meant to be complimentary nor critical. It’s descriptive.

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Vel Santic's avatar

You asked me how I defined the problem. Thinking in general in this world, I answered.

Your first comment Aditya was whatever you wrote, I said what I had onto it, not necessarily meaning your antiAmerican bigotry but your generally antiAmerican rhetoric that operates with half-truths and disregard for the need to win in by stalin-his derivatives imposed cold war.

Btw. the author of this Op-Ed has properly addressed the numerous blunders of American foreign politics when they occurred - symptomatically, should I say, typically perpetrated by the same party tRumputin represents now. But, despite all that, your first comment just hopped on the bandwagon of generally antiAmerican tropes reminiscent of kremlin's propaganda. If you Aditya think your first comment was all that you claim it's meant to be, that's your choice.

I've said what I have.

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Aditya Eachempati's avatar

I’m not aware of having said anything that’s “anti” anyone. I have no rooting interest. I have no opinion on whether my comment describes a good or bad situation.

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PhilsThom's avatar

Trump is making America irrelevant in global trade, finance, defense, and security.

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Vel Santic's avatar

just one example of hundreds already - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUMJqz53YW0

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Vel Santic's avatar

it's actually even worse than that. tRumputin is tasked by terrorist putin of russia and his generally antiAmerican, antiModernWest, anti-human satellites to make a largest extermination camp in humankind's history of USA where especially mass rapes will have been perpetrated before sadistic murders!! that might sound unthinkable but it's not at all - if you allow that bestial, unspeakable, monstrously perverse evil of tRumputin-his entire cabal of terrorists to go on any longer!! All the NONtRumputinist and ANTItRumputinist Americans, you simply must rise up and topple the murderously quisling terrorist tRumputin&his entire reign of terrorists, before it gets too late!! Let me say again - tRumputin is a 34 counts convicted criminal, felon, rapist and close to 60 additional counts more indicted criminal of even worse crimes against USA and the world who, unprecedented in the entire history of USA and the world, ran the scam of second “presidency” through the "elections" of 2024 which he stole, only to avoid the prison that was awaiting him!! We have to keep these ugly facts about the criminal tRumputin in mind whenever referring to him!! Therefore, he must be always morally and psychologically delegitimized, disempowered from any other title than - the chief-criminal-felon-and-quisling - and never ever to be called “president”!! We must break him and make his every moment of existence the nightmare for him&his cult of death until we also formally oust him and punish him!! Also, good NONtRumputinist and better yet ANTItRumputinist Americans, the tRump's-eVIlonmusk's-jdvance's-mikejohnson's-petehegseth's-russvought's-kashpatel's-tulsigabbard's-rfkjr's.... entire reign of terror is/are terrorists' putin's-mbs's-taliban's-netanyahu's-kahanist-ramzankadyrov's agents who are explicitly tasked by these terrorists to, literally, destroy USA. USA is like the American airplanes of 9.11.2001 hijacked by alqaida terrorists i.e. tRumputin reign of terror. This is the sense of urgency all, I repeat, all NONtRumputinist and better yet ANTItRumputinist Americans must have, so, act accordingly, I repeat, act accordingly! Like I've said already - the quisling pos tRumputin is NOT a normal American president (I mean - he's unthinkable of a concept to be even called potus, his terrorist-serving mush of the brain is even crazier!!) and he must NOT be normalized in any way!! his only ID photo is the prison mugshot of him taken at Fulton County Jail, GA and his only number is the prison inmate code-number issued to him at Fulton County Jail, GA!! Therefore, good NONtRumputinist and better yet ANTItRumputinist Americans, act accordingly!! d.j. trump is already diagnosed by the World Mental Health Organization experts as extremely UNFIT for office, extremely malignant narcissist, extremely sociopathic. he is the most dangerous yet the most senselessly over-empowered individual in the world!! OUST him&his entire reign of terror from power NOW!! And, INVESTIGATE AND AUDIT the nov. 2024 "elections" because that 2024 "election" was the real steal!!

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nsakun's avatar

yes, trump is a nasty creature but 77 million voted for him

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Vel Santic's avatar

The largest numbers of voting-eligible Americans actually didn’t vote for anyone.

as to how many voted for tRumputin, after tRumputinist “legislatures” and kkk-like vigilantes purged ca. 4M (that is 4 millions) of Democratic voters, per Greg Palast, eVIlonmusk’s “drop-off” effects in tabulating machines of the battleground states (get informed more about it from Dire Talks and Election Truth Alliance!!), then, terrorist putin’s of russia bombing threats to Democratic places, it wasn’t too hard for tRumputinists to lie how many Americans “voted for them”………

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