It’s Called Imperialism - Or maybe the old-fashioned term: “conquest”
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The NY Times calls it “destroy and deal.” But it’s nothing new.
Soon after President Trump joined Israel in launching a new war against Iran, an A.I. video featuring Secretary of State Marco Rubio circulated online.
Clad in a black turban and robe, he presides over an Iranian military parade, speaks at a mosque and gazes over the Tehran skyline. The caption: “Marco Rubio realizing he’s the new Supreme Leader of Iran.” Though intended as satire, the video crystallizes a pivotal moment for Mr. Rubio.
Throughout his long political career, Mr. Rubio has advocated toppling governments hostile to the United States. He was once considered so ideologically out of step with Mr. Trump that many officials and politicians doubted he would last a year in the administration. But today, Mr. Rubio is at the helm of Mr. Trump’s aggressive campaigns to reshape the governments of Iran, Venezuela, Cuba and beyond.
The U.S. president, who promised to end American wars, is now embracing the policies backed by Mr. Rubio and the secretary’s ideological compatriots, dismaying supporters who thought Mr. Trump had ushered in a new era of military restraint .
But Mr. Rubio is not trying to convert Mr. Trump to George W. Bush-era neoconservatism , which sought to remold other nations’ political systems, sometimes with military force, American officials and analysts say. Instead, he seems to be pursuing a new approach built on power free of principle. It is a merger of neoconservatism with Mr. Trump’s transactionalism, and it amounts to using U.S. military and economic power to turn authoritarian countries into client states.
It is regime compliance rather than regime change, a doctrine of destroy and deal.
Traditional neoconservatives saw promoting democracy and doing nation-building in the world as a moral good, even if it was done at gunpoint. And they viewed those as a means of transforming adversaries wholesale and extending American influence by spreading ideas. The Trump administration’s approach, so far, leaves internal politics to the rival nations as long as they show obeisance.
As long as they show obeisance.
Yeah, this kind of thing has been done since time began. It’s nothing new. It’s uncivilized and monumentally dangerous for us — and the rest of the world.
After WWII it was understood that psychopaths like Trump and Rubio could not be in charge of any civilized country, the United States included. After all, we are not the only country with world destroying nuclear weapons although we have more of them than anyone else. And because Trump is tearing up the existing world order with nothing but chaos and violence to replace it, there will be many more before long. The way things are going, the catastrophic decision to launch one will be aimed at us.
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psychopaths like Trump and Rubio
2028 talking point getting started, trump was bad, but Rubio is so much worse….
the left has always a new, even more Hitler than the last Nazi on deck to scare their voters with
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Do you agree ?
The only politician to call Trump a Hitler was...
Gemini
In case you missed that part...
In case you missed it, the only politician to compare Trump directly to Hitler was his vice president.
Right! Right! Right!..../s
Temu Hitler ... has a nice satirical ring to it.
Only to the triggered.
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Your comment borders on trolling. Are you that unable to address an issue?
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In case it eludes you, this is the issue brought up in the seed
Nothing missed on my part.
All everyone sees is your complete inability to discuss the topic.
Don’t care about that opinion but I do see you. Oh yeah.
I guess we now know who they look up to.