The only upside I can see of a President Trump is that he scares the sh*t out of some of our enemies, by Hal M. Brown
Consider this from the NY Times article Hamas Faces a Future Without Its Most Important Ally (subscription)
And Iran, which supports Hamas and Hezbollah, seems keen to avoid a direct fight with Israel, at least for now. Iran’s air defense systems were devastated in an Israeli attack in October, and after the victory of President-elect Donald J. Trump, the Iranians appear to have called off a reprisal attack.
There's no way that the authors of this article could know that Trump's election was the reason Iran hasn't attacked Israel. After all Trump isn't president yet. The point is still made.
While Russia may benefit from Trump being president when it comes to Ukraine, other countries on Trump's bad side may decide it's the height of reckless insanity to incure the wrath of someone who has to prove he's Rambo on steroids.
Unfortunately the countries that may be on the receiving end of the rage of Trump when they don't bend at the knees before him may include Mexico and Canada.He's already threatened to take military action against Mexico. Does he figure that since the United States wonthe first Mexican-American Warwhich led to Mexico ceding present-day California, Texas, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, and parts of several other states to the United States he'd easily win the second war with Mexico.
Nah.... Trump doesn't know details about history so I rather doubt he knows more about that war than it had something to do withDavy Crocket and the Alamo(and he may not remember that we lost that battle).
Trump likes the idea of being in a "trade war" simply because of the second word. He wants to be viewed as a warrior. Whether it's a war of words, a war against the "deep state," a war against fake news, a war against "woke," Trump has to win.
I doubt there are many people in the entire world who don't know what MAGA means and that Trump wants it to mean "don't f*ck around with me, or else." He wants any adversary, whether an individual, institution, or another country to have an episode of uncontrollable fecal incontinence (there's a slang term for this that involves soiling one's pants) at the mere thought of going up against the country he believes belongs to him.
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