It’s pretty obvious to me that the major point of Trump’s agenda is to ensure Russia colonizes Ukraine again.
NATO has traditionally waited for America’s lead on security issues since we are the largest member. However, we comprise less than 50% of NATO’s population and less than 50% of NATO’s military expenditure.
It looks to me like Canada is handling this right by rightfully dismissing my government and if Ukraine gets large arms deals with no strings attached from the other 31 member states of NATO, then Putin’s attack on our alliance will fail.
Once the US has a good president again we will be forced to examine our relationship with the rest of our alliances it forces it to the front of the debate for the first time since the 1940s.
Once we start thinking about it again Americans will have to consider who we ally ourselves with
The Bush administration turned my generation to the left overall. Trump is now doing it for people born during Bush’s administration without passing any major laws short of a tax cut for billionaires, Trump’s impact in the long term will be insignificant.
That’s what I’m seeing so far.
Trump will end up being far less damaging than Bush has been for the last quarter century when all is said and done.
Trump will not last forever and in 4 years America will have a new president. The next president will have almost 30 years of damage to reverse regarding our relationships with all our allies.
- Clarify that we are a NATO member and a Rio Pact member. These alliances are central to American security and irreplacable.
- Rescind visa policies towards democracies and reinstate visa-free travel to the United States.
- Make a clear and irrefutable statement that we support the accession of Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia into NATO.
- Continue the policy of constraint through trade towards China. Make China utterly dependent on trade to ensure they will not step out of line without seeing an immediate and severe economic depression.
- Reinstate and reinforce American aid efforts around the world. These are successful and improving people’s lives and are effective counter-terrorism.
- Reinstate work visas for foreign farm workers in the United States.
There is a lot of work to be done to not just rescind the damage of the last two Republican presidents but also to move forward toward deeper integration.
The best way to counter the extreme Republican party is not to seek unity with it but to move the Overton window away from their extreme views.
We tried moderate policies and to approach the Republicans under the Biden administration. The policy not only failed but led to the best performance for a Republican candidate under a Democratic President since 1980. Unity as a value does not work.
The path forward is a clear policy moving America towards a brighter future, away from the failed Republican policies, and implementing more complex effective treaties that bind us to our allies and make it politically impossible for a candidate like George Bush to ever be elected again.