Wednesday, June 13th, 2018
Stephan: It is my opinion that the Singapore summit was a reality television event designed by Trump for Trump not the United States. Its purpose was to shift attention and the conversation away from Mueller's investigation, Cohen, Manafort, and all the corruption issues, and refocus them on what was supposed to be a "star story" about Trump as a world leader and master of diplomacy. In fact, in my view, the winner was Kim Jong Un, who achieved what his father and grandfather were never able to accomplish: full recognition and the blessing of the American President. If you read the communique that came out of the meeting, about four paragraphs of generalities, it hardly matches the hype.
To my mind what really mattered was the break in the Western alliance that Trump created at the G-7 meeting, and I think he went into the gathering with that as a goal or, at least, a possibility. Why? Because he thought it would make him look strong and independent. What he doesn't seem to understand is that there will be consequences for years, and that relationships carefully nurtured for decades have been damaged. You can already see the repercussions. So today's edition of SR is about what European allies are saying about what happened. I am doing this because I think we are entering a new less safe world, and I don't think that is getting enough coverage to penetrate people's assessment of what is going on.
Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and G7 leaders France’s President Emmanuel Macron, Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel, Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Donald Trump take part in a working session on the first day of the G7 meeting in Charlevoix city of La Malbaie, Quebec, Canada,
Credit: Adam Scotti/Prime Minister’s Office/Handout/Reuters
The demise of the West. The end of the postwar world order. The beginning of a new era. There are lots of dramatic claims making the rounds to describe what exactly U.S. President Donald Trump is currently up to. And all of them are both correct and incorrect at the same time.
The debacle at the G-7 clearly shows that the real problem with Donald Trump’s policies is Donald Trump himself. There is no rhyme or reason to his actions aside from the desire — the need — to be the best, the most important, the biggest. The collapse of the West and the destruction […]
More whining from the parasites who have been enjoying our “protection” for far too long.
The sooner Europe becomes independent of the US the safer the world will be.
They need to understand that the US foreign policy is a disaster regardless of the party in power.
Bush created 2 disasters: Afghanistan, Iraq
Obama created 4 : Syria, Libya, Yemen, and the Ukraine
Trump – we shall see.