Wasn't it Germany and other prinicple EU states that Trump's been pushing to stop doing oil trade with russia?

and they said no

because that's just not economically sound next to, oh I don't know, shipping it from the US?

Not literally militarily aggressive, but like economically aggressive. And idk about that point, I haven’t heard of that yet.

And if so, yes pressuring countries to stop trading with rivals is bad diplomacy. Unfortunately it’s probably not uncommon tactics either by any large country, or small ones too.

of course not, however that's not synonymous with basically using everything from covert economic and military subversion to overt military intervention as shorthand for actual diplomacy, for getting very close to 20 years straight

JFK couldn't call the naval isolation of Cuba a "blockade" because that would have been an act of war, so instead through rhetoric, the USA and Soviets dealt with the move as a semi-legal act of piracy

but now we just pretend fully blockading and embargoing Iran isn't an explicit act of war, simply because Iran knows it can't survive an actual war

and this has been the foreign policy model of our government long before Trump, so really, its not entirely his fault

but the point stands, we've only been able to get away with this self-righteous flouting of diplomacy for so long because no power on the world stage could individually halt our momentum

this stunt at G7, minor as it was, is still a clear warning sign

No way in hell Macron, *on his own,* had the clout to bring the foreign minister of the country we have square in our sights to an international summit

this was a group effort

And the message is clear. Trump had better take a note from Roosevelt, take firm hold of his big stick, and start walking fucking softly

Yurip, has no clout. I do not doubt they will bend the knee to anyone stronger than them but that is a very long list and not worth mentioning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqf4iQk7trU

They truly have no standards.

No shit

auth left and their big government power

Is anyone surprised after they defended pedos?

Not really

*B-b-b-but leftism doesn't automatically mean authoritarian and collectivist you guys*

*This is pure coincidence that leftists support China, has nothing to do with the core values of their ideology maboys*

Republicans have proven themselves insufficient at combating leftists, given that their negligence of domestic policies with the hand wave of "no, we won't do that, that's *socialism*" has created perfect fertile soil for a generation to come up and say "fine, fuck you, I guess we're socialists now."

Maybe its time to resurrect the Whigs

||*resurrect, fuck, I never get that right the first time||

Literally making the argument for white nationalism too with that logic btw

Fuck you, guess we're nazi's now that you blahblahblah

Lets go down memory lane...

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LMFAOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Vice has literally become INGSOC!

@Imaorange precisely the same phenomenon, yes

democrats are just as guilty

meanwhile genuine socialists or ethnonationalists are going "wow, where are these chucklefucks coming from? I mean thanks for the recruitment drive, but god damn."

Liberal logic: Let fight "Muh Facism" by promoting communism in Portland...

>Liberal
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there's no dictionary react

https://youtu.be/-jTTcB5aprw

https://tenor.com/view/the-simpsons-homer-simpson-stressed-read-reading-gif-4469320

this works

anyway, stop being dumb. Liberals aren't communists