Will he make good on his isolationist rhetoric? Abandon Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria, stop supporting Egypt and Saudi Arabia, maybe even turn his back on NATO and pull American troops out of Japan, South Korea and beyond?
Or will the neo-con agenda return, perhaps through Giuliani, Christie, Bolton and their ilk? Will Trump declare Jerusalem Israel’s indivisible capital, renege on the Iranian nuke deal and crack down on Iran’s new Western trade partners? Will he “bomb the shit out of” not only ISIS but Assad, too, as well as Yemen’s Houthis and maybe even Iraq’s Iranian-backed militias (as Bolton wants to), perhaps even topping things off with an all-out war with Iran?
Or do you think it’ll be more of a mixed bag, depending more on the man’s day-to-day mood swings than on any underlying ideological principle?
Me, I’ll have to admit that I simply have no fucking idea. This whole thing is surreal to me, and I’m still trying to wrap my head around it.
Profit! And lots of it! And Donald will make out big in the end. Regardless of how it ends, I predict he walks away with his pockets full.
I just can’t see him resisting profiting from shit he himself stirs up, whatever form it takes. He’ll be like the ultimate inside trader, in a way. He WILL find a way to profit!
That’s my best guess, anyway!
(I’m also having a hard time imagining him turning down a straight up bribe/incentive!)
Why would Trump bomb Assad? That’s Putin’s buddy. And Trump only had good things to say about Assad during the campaign, as far as I remember.
Don’t tease me about Trump pulling back the American military and dismantling the empire. That’s like one of those philosophical trolley problems in real life.
Doesn’t look like he’ll go full isolationist, either. Apparently he had a chat with the South Korean President, and promised her that the Americans won’t abandon them after all.
But who knows. He might just have been running his mouth. Wouldn’t surprise me if he changed his mind tomorrow. And the day after that, and the day after that.
