ALL TRUMP!!! ALL THE TIME!!!

Kindof how we did with Germany, Japan, etc.?

I'm replying to this here because you guys are derailing the covid thread, and I'm waiting on cooldowns.

Ahem, do I support getting out of Afghanistan? Sure, I would be open to the idea, if its done correctly. That said, is Trump doing it correctly?

HELL NO.

First, lets get the obvious out of the way, the Trump admin signed an American surrender with the Taliban, yes THAT Taliban, while not only cutting out the Afganistan government, but making promises on their behalf. That in itself should raise all kinds of red flags.

To summarize what the surrender terms were, the USA would fully withdraw, the Afghan government would release all of, or a huge chunk of, the ISIS prisoners that they had captured in exchange for Afghani POWs (a prisoner awap) and the Taliban, yes THAT Taliban, would agree not to harbor or promote acts of terrorism.

Since the US signed the surrender, the Afghan gov't has indeed released thousands of ISIS prisoners, and they have received back some of their POWs, but it hasn't been equivocal. More importantly, the terrorism has increased, at some points in time, skyrocketed. I mean, the Taliban are terrorists, so of course they are continuing to commit acts of terrorism.

So the US withdrawal has effectively been slowed, we withdrew from I think 4 bases and the immediate result was more terrorism. Trump wanted us out fully by the end of the year thats not gonna happen. Now he wants 4k troops out by the Fall I would doubt that happens. Congress has never liked the terms of the surrender, no one believes the Taliban. Trump just wants to score a political win at any cost, he fell flat on his face with North Korea, history is repeating itself.

To expand, Trump is fighting for Afghanistan to be the next Vietnam, decade+ long conflict ends in American retreat that ended up being all for nothing. If Trump's surrender is fully enacted, thats the same result. The Taliban is gonna take over and continue to let terrorism flourish. Its already happening, hence why the withdrawal has grounded to a halt.

Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump has cast himself as tough on China and promised that his trade negotiations with Beijing would economically benefit everyday Americans, even as Trump-owned properties have continued to contribute to the trade deficit with the country he rails about.

Since September of last year, Trump properties in the US have imported more than eight tons of goods from China, CNN has learned by reviewing US customs data compiled by ImportGenius, which tracks information companies are legally bound to provide to US customs when they import goods to the US. The imports have arrived to decorate his properties while the President has sought to dress down China.

More than six tons of tables were delivered to Trump International Hotel in New York last fall. On the same day, Trump tweeted, "We are doing very well in our negotiations with China." ...

Without looking it up, do you remember who the president was that finally took us out of the Vietnam War?

Can you honestly answer that question?

Without looking it up, do you remember who the president was that finally took us out of the Vietnam War?

Can you honestly answer that question?

Trump blasts Beijing in public, but privately Trump org imports tons of Chinese goods

It seems that Trump's "be American buy American" initiative somehow didn't make it from the oval office to his sons....

Nixon.

..wait, this article is about 8 tons of products? Furniture, no less.

This is not a bombshell argument you are making Chanti. You probably have 8 tons of Chinese products in your house/yard right now.....

If Nixon didn't resign, it would have lasted a few more years, tbh.

BTW, it was Ford. Fighting may have slowed down, and, as Rooks pointed out, Case-Church made it harder for new battles to occur, but the war ended after Nixon left office. It was still going on when Ford took over.

It was Nixon's platform. But he was very shady, obviously. And ending a war isn't as black and white as Skull wants us to respond with, and certainly not as easy as Trump wishes. But Nixon ran on getting us out and leaving South Vietnam as a sustainable country. I think he called it Peace through Honor or something like that. They lasted 2 years.

Let's not forget that Trump has zero say in any of these purchases.

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It seems that Trump's "be American buy American" initiative somehow didn't make it from the oval office to his sons....

Wishing Ghislaine Maxwell well. Not where I'd have gone with that, but you do you, Mr. President

Wishing Ghislaine Maxwell well. Not where I'd have gone with that, but you do you, Mr. President

Ghislaine Maxwell paid $25K to facts I don't like purveyor Jacob Wohl

So far responses are either ignore the question or no cuz Trump not doing it correctly, so lets keep up the War.

I hate to rest my case here, but I will give options again.

Keep troops in Afghanistan or Leave under Trumps orders? NO grey areas. Leave under Trump or Keep them there. Here, I'll even help and give you my opinion, I am for keeping Troops there.

See Rooks, proof that your text replacer can backfire.

Not only is he running for dictator of the confederacy, he is making sure to land the filthy rich child molester vote...

Meh, Trump has a history of saying things that are easily taken out of context. On one hand it's his fault for not clarifying, but it also is the fault of people who go into tinfoil hat mode and make wild assumptions about his intent.

My guess is that it may have been a subtle jab with him thinking that she's about to get "Epsteined", but I'm not jumping to conclusions. I'm sure he'll go on a Twitter rant to explain himself at some point.