Post by spaceflower on May 17, 2018 9:11:45 GMT
Or is his only plan "I will tear down everything that Obama has built up"?
The European allies are as the Guardian puts it "friends without benefits".
www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/14/the-myth-of-trumps-european-allies-shows-of-friendship-dont-signal-influence
Trump does not listen to Macron or Boris Johnson.
Euroepan companies will have to obey Trump.
I get the feeling that Trump is ignorant and does not even want to know all the facts and consequences. He prefers to let his feelings decide. Such a man in charge of a super power, that is scary.
The European allies are as the Guardian puts it "friends without benefits".
It was clear within the first few minutes of Emmanuel Macron’s White House meeting with Donald Trump that there was little hope of saving the Iran nuclear deal, when the US president declared he was ready to impose the “worst ever” sanctions on Tehran.
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He was just the latest ally to discover Europe had little – if any – sway on this president.
“Do you want a war?” Macron asked Trump, astonished.
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He was just the latest ally to discover Europe had little – if any – sway on this president.
“Do you want a war?” Macron asked Trump, astonished.
Trump does not listen to Macron or Boris Johnson.
Accounts from diplomats and officials of the last few desperate weeks of the European bid to salvage the Iran deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), reveal how Trump’s radicalism constantly took other world leaders by surprise.
Each time the Europeans thought they had gained traction in negotiations, it turned out to be an illusion. The UK foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, flew into Washington on 6 May, bullish that an agreement to save the JCPOA was still within reach. His spirits were raised by the fact he had managed to get a meeting with the secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, whose presence had been in doubt (hours after meeting Johnson, Pompeo made a secret trip to Pyongyang).
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A decision had been made and US officials had little interest in his ideas.
“By the time he left, he was pretty furious he had made a trip for nothing,” said an official familiar with the US-UK meetings.
Each time the Europeans thought they had gained traction in negotiations, it turned out to be an illusion. The UK foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, flew into Washington on 6 May, bullish that an agreement to save the JCPOA was still within reach. His spirits were raised by the fact he had managed to get a meeting with the secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, whose presence had been in doubt (hours after meeting Johnson, Pompeo made a secret trip to Pyongyang).
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A decision had been made and US officials had little interest in his ideas.
“By the time he left, he was pretty furious he had made a trip for nothing,” said an official familiar with the US-UK meetings.
Euroepan companies will have to obey Trump.
Worse still for the transatlantic relations, US officials have told their counterparts that, in the wake of Trump’s decisive breach with the JCPOA last Tuesday, there would be no exemptions for European companies in the coming wave of sanctions against anyone who continues to do business with Iran.
I get the feeling that Trump is ignorant and does not even want to know all the facts and consequences. He prefers to let his feelings decide. Such a man in charge of a super power, that is scary.