#Trump’s entire foreign policy – haphazard as it is – has left the United States alone, weaker, and poorer than it has been since the Revolutionary War.

... This was a process that took two years after the US entry into the war. And that was when we had major shipbuilding capability. How long will it take with our currently diminished shipbuilding capacity.

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... Those bases provide staging for rapid response to #Russian aggression. Without those bases, the US will be back to its pre–World War II status of having to ramp up delivery of men and material across the Atlantic to meet any threat. ...

#Trump’s attempts to annex #Greenland have threatened to shatter #NATO – an alliance that has stymied first Soviet and now #Russian aggression and kept the peace in Europe for 77 years. This is #Putin’s wet dream come true. Without NATO, the US will not have any bases in Europe. ...

... #NATO allies have stopped sharing intelligence with Washington as it seems to them to be a direct pipeline to #Moscow. The same is true for our allies in the southeast Pacific.

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On the #security front, the administration has also engaged in erratic foreign policy with respect to our allies while cozying up to our enemies. The on again – off again support for Ukraine makes their defense precarious. ...

... Even a new administration will face a long slog trying to reopen markets. And any trading advantages we may have had are long gone and will take a very long time to recover – if ever.

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The loss of trust in the US as a trading partner has closed markets to our #farmers and #businesses. With foreign markets adopting other, safer trading partners, the US is left holding the bag for its goods. Trust cannot be restored overnight. ...

... Grudgingly, #China has resumed some purchases of US soybeans, but at a greatly reduced level. For the US #farmers, soybean prices have dropped dramatically.

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Case in point: #China was a huge market for US soybean crops. When Trump initiated it trade war with China, China stopped all US soybean imports and now imports their soybeans from Brazil. Far from hurting China, it’s the US #farmers scrambling to find new markets for their crops. ...

... these countries have severed trade with the US to obtain what they want from other markets. With respect to trade, the US is being shut out in the cold.

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It's diminishing rapidly since he's ruined the value of WAPO.

Twice in my lifetime the Washington Post has been at the forefront of major breaking news.

First the Pentagon papers which went to the Supreme Court.

Second Watergate and the downfall of President Nixon.

Now, that pimple on the ass of the universe Bezos has reduced it to a supermarket tabloid.

Twice in my lifetime the Washington Post has been at the forefront of major breaking news.

First the Pentagon papers which went to the Supreme Court.

Second Watergate and the downfall of President Nixon.

Now, that pimple on the ass of the universe Bezos has reduced it to a supermarket tabloid.

Now there's a disturbing relationship.