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With Trump weak and off the world stage China and Russia try to fill the vacuum …

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Donald Trump has been the ONLY American President in decades that has either ignore the outside world, insulted it or darn right tried to seal the country from it….

America and it’s economy and culture HAS led for as long as we can remember ….

But now?

With a distracted American President on the ropes politically IN his country try and no longer respected outside of it?

The leaders of other countries are vying for the headlines and political spotlight…

And some are making moves that would have NEVER been done with ANY other US President Republican or Democrat….(Hong Kong….Putin for Life)

No doubt that we ALL around the planet are waiting for the November America voters to right a sinking ship and send things back to normal….

ole’ Joe Biden is well known out the American borders and will be expected to bring back the America world position leadership, but with a bit least reliance one who expect after the Trump experience’s lessons…(Biden’s Sec of State is gonna be putting in a LOT of air miles in the beginning)

But right now?

There IS a shoving match going on …..

Donald Trump has NOT  ‘ Made America Great Again’  on the world stage or American stage either…He’s done quite the opposite and he will dump this Biden’s lap as he walks out the door…

This past week, on US President Donald Trump’s watch Russia and China have effectively re-aligned the coming world order. They didn’t do it together, but both took advantage of uncertainty and unpredictability that Trump has helped create.

It’s far from clear that the next US President will be able to roll back the consequences of this week, which leave both Presidents Vladimir Putin in Moscow and Xi Jinping in Beijing more decisively in control of their own countries and more able to act assertively.
In other words, Trump has made an indelible mark on the world — and it may not be for the good.
It is no coincidence that Putin and Xi have cemented their grip on cherished goals, as the clock runs down on Trump’s first, and possibly only, term in office.
This past week, in a referendum on constitutional revisions so predictable that copies were on sale before the vote, Putin has effectively been made President for life, as Xi has moved equally ruthlessly, taking control of Hong Kong through a new national security law, while telling US allies Canada, Australia and the UK to keep out of China’s internal affairs.
Riot police are seen in front of a burning road block during a protest against the new national security law on July 1, 2020, in Hong Kong.
Both seem to be of the view the US has neither the will nor the consistency to put up resistance. Indeed, Trump’s White House gave evidence of exactly that this week, floundering for a coherent response to allegations Russia paid the Taliban to kill US forces in Afghanistan. The Russian Embassy in Washington and the Taliban have both denied the claims.
As David Ignatius wrote in The Washington Post this week, Putin “is in the payback business. He believes the United States destroyed his former country, the Soviet Union. He likes the United States to feel pain.” He now has plenty of years for more payback.
According to White House deputy press secretary Sarah Matthews: “President Trump is a world-class negotiator who has consistently furthered America’s interests on the world stage.”
image…leaders of China and Russian smiling…NY Post

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  2. james sounds more like John Bolton here. Is the VP under Obama going to conduct foreign policy differently than Obama?

    • In certain respects YES….

      It IS 4 years after Obama ran the countries Foreign Policy that Trump has in shambles…

  3. Even before his Vice Presidency, Joe Biden was chairman/ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (a post previously held by, inter alia Henry Clay, Thomas Hart Benton, James Buchanan, Henry Cabot Lodge (sr), William Borah, Arthur Vandenberg, Theodore Francis Green, J. William Fulbright, Frank Church, Richard Lugar, Jesse Helms and Claiborne Pell).

    So, in respect of knowing foreign policy and foreign leaders, Joe Biden is as qualified as George H.W. Bush and Hillary Clinton — in qualifications the polar opposite of Donald Trump.l

    • Indeed DSD on Biden and foreign leaders relationships….

      He , and his Sec of State ….Who I would guess right now maybe John Kerry again , or Susan Rice if she isn’t the VP will be doing a LOT of flying to reintroduce America back into the world community…

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