CNN's Fareed Zakaria: Trump Could 'Destroy the World'
By: Kipp Jones (Mediaite)
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CNN's Fareed Zakaria cautioned Sunday from Davos he believed that President Donald Trump could disrupt the delicate foreign policy ecosystem the US created in the last century and that it could ultimately "destroy the world."
The host, who was reporting live from the World Economic Forum, spoke to attendees about Trump's America-first agenda. He concluded the world that America's post-World War II policies helped build now risked being undone by the president's shortsighted desire to impose his will.
Zakaria said that prior to 1941, Americans preferred isolationism to empire and that the country did something unthinkable after freeing Europe, Africa, and Asia from dictators. He noted instead of seeking repayment, it paid war-torn countries to rebuild.
The host said American foreign policy allowed it to act in its own best interests while building up others in the eight decades after the war ended. Due to innumerable policies of "goodwill" from Washington, Zakaria said, America had been given the benefit of the doubt time and again when acting unilaterally on the global stage.
He cited one "foreign leader" who asked to remain anonymous who told him, "We all accommodate American requests and wishes far more than those from any other country."
But Zakaria warned he believed Trump now risked burning decades of goodwill and room to operate down for a series of cheap and easy personal wins.
"He wants to squeeze every foreigner for more," Zakaria said.
While discussing the Panama Canal, which Trump has threatened to retake while complaining of fees for the US military to use it, Zakaria said:
But Trump wanted to shake down a poorer Central American country and get a discount. It's a way of being that is always about a transaction rather than a relationship. America is so powerful that it's quite possible that Trump will succeed in getting these discounts as he threatens other countries, most of them friends, allies, and partners. But in doing so, he will lose the goodwill generated over decades of American foreign policy that made so many countries around the world want to ally with Washington against the Soviet Union, or Russia, or China.
And he might unleash forces of nationalism and protectionism that, over time, will damage, even destroy the world that America created, a world that has been more stable, peaceful, prosperous, and free than any we have known before.
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Zakaria is another one who tried to cozy up to Trump during the campaign and is living to regret it.
Isn't this why Trump won the election? Promises made, promises kept. There haven't been many surprises from Trump's first week of his second term.
seems i recall a damn many on the 'right' downplayin what Trump was sayin and writing it off as his misinterpreted words that Trump often does, and all of US melting snowflakes were just overblowing the severity of the hyperbole, cause they said of course he doesn't mean that, or was it this, irregardless Trump and his reign of piss is gonna bring US all to a new low, and for this, i must say, that if you enabled this sick fck, dumber than a hockey puck, that should be lightning struck,
YOU, not Harris, not the Dems, not the confused fems, YOU are what will bring this country to its lowest point, and that point IS pointing directly at, not Biden, not the poor choices provided, this country DIVIDED, and YOUI PEOPLE that voted for this POS own every bit, of the dismantling of the greatest country in the world, so own it, own every bit of this piece of shit, that the GOP did provide, so own it fellows, own Trump 2.0,
cause U are the reason we are the most laughed at while feared fckd up country in the world today, so i thought it was right to point it out. Thanx muck you fckrs up of the USA
own this vengeful insecure misogynistic & bombastic little prick
He is only out to destroy America out of spite.There is no plan in place to handle the vast number of honest American government workers who will be unemployed through no fault of their own.
Who pays for all those people who are now without jobs?
The move to eliminate oversight and FDIC for banking customers. Shutting down consumer protections and rolling back regulations don't create jobs or feed the unemployed.
It's almost like they don't care if there is a run on banks only to leave Americans without jobs high and dry while the government laughs.
So we sit in the ditches, starving to death, while they dine on pheasant served on gold platters