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Politics : The Trump Presidency

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To: i-node who wrote (329913)4/6/2025 2:08:31 PM
From: koan  Read Replies (1) of 356630
 
Do you realize Trump threatened to break Canada economically, so they would become the 51st state

Do you call that negotiating?

Do you realize our allies really hate us!!??

Do you realize he said he would not rule out military action to get Greenland?

And said he would just take GAZA!

And as far as NATO goes, what they were really saying is the US CANNOT be relied on ANYMORE, so we must build our own military.

NATO no longer trusts us!!

How is any of that negotiating?

I negotiated many millions of dollars over my 40 year career, and I always negotiated in "Good faith""!!

I NEVER saw the people I was negotiating as the enemy!

<Message #329913 from i-node at 4/6/2025 1:59:57 PM

If the countries perceive it as bullying, it is bullying.Well, it doesn't really matter how they perceive it, but unless they're run by children they are doing it, too, so no they don't see it as bullying. They see it as negotiating.

You thought you saw Trump as "bullying" NATO, but at the end of the day, Stoltenberg came out said, "Trump was right" and that everyone benefitted by Tr
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