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Be fair to @LJONESY - he’s been quite honest that he doesn’t totally like trump, but it has meant that his family is better off (to the tune of £3k ish a year) - I’m sure that many would agree that family comes first.
If Corbyn, by some stroke of damned luck (for him) managed to get into power, and suddenly I was £3k a year better off, it would soften the blow somewhat. I still wouldn’t like the bloke, and it wouldn’t make me a prospect for his momentum gang.
Be fair to @LJONESY - he’s been quite honest that he doesn’t totally like trump, but it has meant that his family is better off (to the tune of £3k ish a year) - I’m sure that many would agree that family comes first.
If Corbyn, by some stroke of damned luck (for him) managed to get into power, and suddenly I was £3k a year better off, it would soften the blow somewhat. I still wouldn’t like the bloke, and it wouldn’t make me a prospect for his momentum gang.
Except that this is international diplomacy under a media spotlight in a globalized world, not the rarified halls of higher academia. Everything is connected, if only by perception rather than 'fact', with one small turn of a wheel in one corner potentially having 2nd or 3rd order effects of disproportionate importance.
Except that this is international diplomacy under a media spotlight in a globalized world, not the rarified halls of higher academia. Everything is connected, if only by perception rather than 'fact', with one small turn of a wheel in one corner potentially having 2nd or 3rd order effects of disproportionate importance.
The perception of US as a reliable partner in international and regional affairs was one of the US's most valuable foreign policy assets. Withdrawing the US from international and regional affairs may play well to certain audiences but when you realise how far US prosperity is dependent on being central to those affairs you see how risky a game it is.
Apart from that whole "invading countries, overthrowing inconvenient governments and exposing the civilian population to murder and terror in the ensuing internecine bloodbath" aspect of reliability, you mean?