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Title: Trump Threatens to Cut Foreign Aid to Countries That Vote to Forbid the US from Recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's Capital
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AceOfSpades
URL Source: http://ace.mu.nu/archives/373028.php
Published: Dec 21, 2017
Author: Ace
Post Date: 2017-12-21 01:29:10 by Tooconservative
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Views: 2354
Comments: 59
The good sort of Trumpian: people don't like being played for chumps, and Trump gives voice to that. The US already vetoed this attempt in the Security Council, but now they're having a meaningless vote on it in the General Assembly: Nikki Haley is reinforcing Trump's threat. She bluntly echoed that call in a Twitter post: "The U.S. will be taking names." Meanwhile, the ninnies who cry that #TrumpIsKillingUsAll are, alas, still with us. Do you remember the three freak-outs recently in which the ninnies claimed Trump was "killing us"? I do. Here's Trump's MURDER SPREE in progress: Poster Comment: I'll wait to see if Trump carries through on his excellent threat: "Let them vote against us. We'll save a lot. We don't care..." "They take hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions of dollars, and then they vote against us. Well, we're watching those votes. Let them vote against us. We'll save a lot. We don't care," Trump told reporters at the White House. The 193-member U.N. General Assembly will hold a rare emergency special session on Thursday -- at the request of Arab and Muslim countries -- to vote on a draft resolution, which was vetoed by the United States on Monday in the 15-member U.N. Security Council. U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley, in a letter to dozens of U.N. states on Tuesday seen by Reuters, warned that Trump had asked her to "report back on those countries who voted against us."
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#19. To: Tooconservative (#0)
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The countries that voted with USA and Israel: Guatemala, Honduras, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau and Togo There are awfully many of them. Are you sure, striking them is a smart idea? BTW, the fallout might go the opposite way.
Guatemala, Honduras, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau and Togo Being intimidated into not voting or formally abstaining, is NOT support by any stretch of the imagination.
Aren't those non serious places of fun vacations for Americans?
I saw a little interview with one of those old diplo hacks a few days ago. It was Negroponte, I think. He said that all those tiny island nations like Micronesia and a few in Central America have voted with us pretty reflexively for decades. He had a kinda funny grin when he said that. Apparently, their populations are pro-America and they don't want to vote against us. Of course, the CIA does have a lot of black budget money to throw around and its profits from its historical Golden Triangle-type enterprises. So who knows whether palms are being greased... Anyway, the U.N. is mostly a clown parade to begin with and the General Assembly means nothing. Only that smoke-filled room in the Security Council matters and only then for those with veto powers. There's no reason to admire such a fundamentally corrupt organization where multiple authoritarian governments wield veto power (Russia, China) to dominate international politics.
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestI'll wait to see if Trump carries through on his excellent threat: "Let them vote against us. We'll save a lot. We don't care..."
The important thing is to strike a hard blow at the onset. In some of these nations there will be political fallout for having suffered the consequences of earning America's wrath over something which did not even involve them.
#24. To: A Pole, Tooconservative, *Neo-Lib Chickenhawk Wars* (#19)
#25. To: hondo68, A Pole, Tooconservative (#24)
Guatemala, Honduras, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau and Togo
#35. To: buckeroo (#25)
Aren't those non serious places of fun vacations for Americans?
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