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originally posted by: OccamsRazor04
a reply to: Gryphon66
I suggested nothing, I simply showed you the logical error of your post. I am glad you were finally able to understand.
originally posted by: bigfatfurrytexan
a reply to: Gryphon66
No, but I don't think he is stupid, either. I think Blaine is correct here....Trump is treading lightly and playing polite because he doesn't want to blow it with bluster. NK has already had to have that "come to heel" moment which was started by US bluster making them rattle sabres and culminated in Trump cancelling the summit (before it was back on again).
Either its very touch and go, or its the worst high school love drama ever made. But if i set cynicism aside, it seems most logical that Trump is just showering praise to grease the wheels a little.
originally posted by: Gryphon66
originally posted by: burdman30ott6
a reply to: Gryphon66
The sanctions are tied to the EO, same as with a number of the Congressional actions present from 9/11 that are directly tied to Bush's post 9/11 EO on Afghanistan and the War on Terror. It's the reason Obama reupped the War on Terror state of emergency each year it came across his desk, despite him publicly saying he was opposed to the action as originally written. He eventually removed one or two sections of it, but left it otherwise intact due to it being the genesis for a number of sanctions and funding mechanisms from Congress.
Right but CONGRESS sets the sanctions. The PRESIDENT declares (or continues) the State of Emergency.
Either we are in an Emergency or we aren't. That kind of double-talk is what Mr. Trump came to Washington to get rid of.
originally posted by: OccamsRazor04
a reply to: Gryphon66
Diplomatic =/= Political
It's called making the deal.
originally posted by: Gryphon66
a reply to: burdman30ott6
Okay, I hear you.
But how do you know?
Now I don't know what to believe.
ntous military planning on Earth right now.
Who’s even paying attention, given the eternal changing of the guard at the White House, as well as the latest in tweets, sexual revelations, and investigations of every sort? And yet it increasingly looks as if, thanks to current Pentagon planning, a twenty-first-century version of the Cold War (with dangerous new twists) has begun and hardly anyone has even noticed.
In 2006, when the Department of Defense spelled out its future security role, it saw only one overriding mission: its “Long War” against international terrorism. “With its allies and partners, the United States must be prepared to wage this war in many locations simultaneously and for some years to come,” the Pentagon’s Quadrennial Defense Review explained that year.
Twelve years later, the Pentagon has officially announced that that long war is drawing to a close — even though at least seven counterinsurgency conflicts still rage across the Greater Middle East and Africa — and a new long war has begun, a permanent campaign to contain China and Russia in Eurasia.
“Great power competition, not terrorism, has emerged as the central challenge to U.S. security and prosperity,” claimed Pentagon Comptroller David Norquist while releasing the Pentagon’s $686 billion budget request in January. “It is increasingly apparent that China and Russia want to shape a world consistent with their authoritarian values and, in the process, replace the free and open order that has enabled global security and prosperity since World War II.”
Of course, just how committed President Trump is to the preservation of that “free and open order” remains questionable given his determination to scuttle international treaties and ignite a global trade war. Similarly, whether China and Russia truly seek to undermine the existing world order or simply make it less American-centric is a question that deserves close attention,just not today
The New Geopolitical Chessboard This renewed emphasis on China and Russia in U.S. military planning reflects the way top military officials are now reassessing the global strategic equation, a process that began long before Donald Trump entered the White House. Although after 9/11, senior commanders fully embraced the “long war against terror” approach to the world, their enthusiasm for endless counterterror operations leading essentially nowhere in remote and sometimes strategically unimportant places began to wane in recent years as they watched China and Russia modernizing their military forces and using them to intimidate neighbors.
While the long war against terror did fuel a vast, ongoing expansion of the Pentagon’s Special Operations Forces (SOF) — now a secretive army of 70,000 nestled inside the larger military establishment — it provided surprisingly little purpose or real work for the military’s “heavy metal” units: the Army’s tank brigades, the Navy’s carrier battle groups, the Air Force’s bomber squadrons, and so forth. Yes, the Air Force in particular has played a major supporting role in recent operations in Iraq and Syria, but the regular military has largely been sidelined there and elsewhere by lightly equipped SOF forces and drones.
originally posted by: BlueAjah
Why is this thread marked breaking?
Why is it a big deal? Trump is keeping his word. He said he would keep pressure on NK. Why in the world would he let this order expire?
originally posted by: BlueAjah
Why is this thread marked breaking?
Why is it a big deal? Trump is keeping his word. He said he would keep pressure on NK. Why in the world would he let this order expire?
I haven't said anything about the "fake news" Redneck. I haven't quoted anything from the news, in fact, I didn't see anything about this on "the news."
Today wasn't about "extending sanctions" ... today Mr. Trump declared North Korea a continuing threat.
I'm not sure why so many folks here are trying to spin this ... it's very very simple.
Further, what he did today is CONTINUING the Obama EOs!
There's really no other way to see it. President Trump had his great success in North Korea, greater than any other modern President ... and now, he's back to acting just like all of them did.
originally posted by: Gryphon66
a reply to: TheConstruKctionofLight
Wow, that is scary.
You think Mr. Trump will let them do that?
Like I said above, I'm worried about him. Some of these things he does seems like the Deep State may be finally wearing him down.