Obama started the pivot East instead

which was 8 years worth of delay

plus the Asian allies HATED Obama

Except he fucked it up by being a Cuck of cucks.

His strategy was not suited for the far East

I was not - and am not - a fan of the previous administration.

this is not a controversial or original opinion

Fucking apology tours?

Japs were ultra frustrated with him

it's why they changed their constitution

https://youtu.be/CMFqwCx7tnQ

Joerg did

Joerg did it

I don't care about your e-celeb drama

Deep-bow to the leader of another nation when you have the superior position.

pls move along

I don’t think you even understand what this precipitates

You don't go polite and understanding mode to the representatives of a different civilization

there is no common language of symbols to use

I don't even know what's going on.

so it's pure power

Yeah, I'm still a bit steamed about that particular idiocy.

Ah, the Youtube Union thing.

Ergo why I throw in for the bull-in-the-china-shop President Trump.

The most important thing is to avoid isolationism

isolationism would be BAD

and you have a strong drive to it in the grass roots

like you had in the 20s

in the 20s it was ok

because you were not a great power

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-49523239

now it would be ruinous

This is something I tend to agree, even if I'd rather it not be so.

@Goodwood of Dank™ he looks handsome in that photo, and I'm the kinda man who can never tell, so this is pretty impressive...

reality does not care about your feelings, bucko

D A B

That is, the US - for the sake of our species- can't go back into the isolationism of the years of yore.

I mean it's not just species

you'd also lose out massivley

as the polity

you get chep shit from around the world for a reason