Wednesday, May 9, 2018

WILL TRUMP'S UNDOING EVERYTHING OBAMA BREAK INTERNATIONAL WHITE SOLIDARITY?


Yesterday, Trump finally found the nerve to reverse one of President Obama's larger decisions, the Iran Nuclear Deal. This is just one undo-Obama maneuver of many from the Trump administration.  

From GQ.com 2017
Donald Trump does not like Barack Obama
Why? 
Well, for a whole host of reasons. 
First off, Barack Obama had the audacity to be both the President of the United States and a black man, and Trump spent years obsessed with the racist idea that Obama must have been born in Kenya. Another reason Donald Trump doesn't like Barack Obama is that Obama famously dunked all over him at the 2011 White House Correspondents Dinner, and Trump is nothing if not petty and vindictive. And now that he's running the country? The president's only ideology seems to be: "Do whatever it takes to destroy what Obama did."
Now we've known that this was a piece of the Trump plan for a while now. Take this excerpt of a June New York Times piece:


Five months after leaving office, Mr. Obama watches mostly in silence as his successor takes a political sledgehammer to his legacy. Brick by brick, President Trump is trying to tear down what Mr. Obama built. The trade deal? Canceled. The climate pact? Forget it. Cuba? Partially reversed. Health care? Unresolved, but to be repealed if he can navigate congressional crosscurrents.
https://www.gq.com/story/donald-trump-undo-obama

The white folks in western Europe know that this is what motivates Trump as well. 
On one level, the officials said, [Trump] is something of a laughing stock among Europeans at international gatherings. One revealed that a small group of diplomats play a version of word bingo whenever the president speaks because they consider his vocabulary to be so limited. “Everything is ‘great’, ‘very, very great’, ‘amazing’,” the diplomat said.
But behind the mocking, there is growing fear among international governments that Trump is a serious threat to international peace and stability.
“He has no historical view. He is only dealing with these issues now, and seems to think the world started when he took office,” a diplomat told BuzzFeed News, pointing to Trump’s remarks and tweets about defence spending....

They also believe Trump’s foreign policy is chiefly driven by an obsession with unravelling Barack Obama’s policies. “It’s his only real position,” one European diplomat said. “He will ask: ‘Did Obama approve this?’ And if the answer is affirmative, he will say: ‘We don’t.’ He won’t even want to listen to the arguments or have a debate. He is obsessed with Obama.” 

https://www.buzzfeed.com/albertonardelli/this-is-why-european-diplomats-think-donald-trump-is?utm_term=.ynrPwYeZP#.nyV35jAb3


Trump has withdrawn from the Paris Climate Change Agreement, but the agreement did not dissolve. White Western Europe is still in it.  Trump was making noise about withdrawing from NATO. There wasn't even the slightest chance NATO was going to dissolve if the United States left. And now Trump has withdrawn from the Iraq Nuclear Deal. And that hasn't gone anywhere either.  Neither Iran nor Europe is ending the deal. I'm wondering if Europe will increase its exports to Iran in order to cover the sanctions the U.S. is going to put in place.

All together this makes me wonder if white dominated U.S. and white dominated western European countries are kinda filing for divorce. And I'm wondering what positive outcomes might come from Trump breaking white solidarity between nations.


I'm thinking about decreasing white westerners being less able to decide that a regime change is in order in Iraq.

I'm thinking about decreasing white westerners being less able to force other countries to abandon nuclear weapons and ballistic weapons without having to get rid of their own nuclear weapons and nuclear weapons. 

I'm thinking immigration policies might be more equitable with white leaders a lost less internationally united.

In my opinion, the only thing that Iran and North Korea Nuclear Deals can really do is slow a country down from getting nuclear weapons. If a country wants to be a big dog on the international stage, they are going to get weapons that are equal to the biggest dog. But if they have to sneak their way into becoming a nuclear power, they'll have to do it slower.

So President Obama was right to put the deal in place. And Trump is not likely wrong about Iran or N Korea still wanting to have nuclear weapons. But all Trump white supremacist braying does to leaders in Iran and N Korea is make them think nuclear weapons are necessary to defend themselves.

By the way, it was South Korea that brokered a peace with North Korea. And they started during the Olympics when both countries decided to take the field together. 
Meanwhile Pence went to the games to antagonize North Korea, making a showing of taking Otto Warmbeir's parents to the games on the heels of numerous verbal and twitter threats from Trump. 
It's nothing short of amazing that Trump is trying to take credit for anything positive taking place with North Korea.

As a result of Trump doing his latest anti-Obama maneuver, as a result of his pulling out of the Iran Nuclear Deal we're hoping not to see instability in the middle east. Iran's leader is likely going to be attacked by more conservative forces in his country as a result of the U.S. reneging on this deal. And if the conservatives in Iran win, and a new leader is put in place, Iran might start building a nuclear weapon in faster than they would have.

And now that they've seen the U.S. go back on its word, its' unlikely they are going to negotiate again. (So we better hope Europe can keep 90% of the Iran Deal in place)


Here in the U.S. were' probably going to see higher gas prices as a result of Trump's maneuver. How other prices will be affected by gas prices and how the economy will be affected, we don't know yet. 

But I still think it might be a good thing for the world, long term, for Europe and the United States to go through this break up. 

We'll see. 


President Obama's Response
"I believe that the decision to put the JCPOA at risk without any Iranian violation of the deal is a serious mistake," Obama.
Read Obama's full statement at the link:
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/08/a-serious-mistake-read-obamas-statement-on-trumps-decision-to-pull-out-of-iran-deal.html

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