tbf the deliberate headline grabbing rhetoric and childish name-calling on N Korea (for that is what it was) did have the effect of making the threats to Iran, Venezuela and Cuba (all sovereign states where sovereignty should be embraced according to Trump) look almost statesmanlike. Apparently though Saudi Arabia, who play a similar role in shattering the sovereignty of Yemen as that of Iran escaped a yellow card. Much like Las Vegas boxing judges Trump has his favourites when it comes to looking at geo-political sins.
As someone said this was a speech made in the US for domestic consumption. Radical Islamic terrorism is back in the lexicon, presumably because Breitbart complained that that nasty globalist McMaster had been tippexing it out as soon as Bannon and Gorka put their possessions in cardboard boxes and were escorted from the premises.
How the UK and in particular Liam Fox squares its ambition for a free trade deal with the US against this America First and no one-sided deal stance shown here is probably left for another day. Perhaps our negotiating position will be so weak that a trade deal that puts America first is the only thing we are able to agree!
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Originally Posted by cyril evans awaydays
there are certainly some contradictions going on there.
