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From: Cindy Hamilton <chamilton5280@invalid.com>
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Subject: Re: Fwd: stew
Date: Sat, 10 May 2025 15:29:46 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-05-10, Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> On 2025-05-10 4:51 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>> On 2025-05-09, Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>>> On 2025-05-09 5:41 p.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>>> On 2025-05-09, Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> It's not just one deranged man. There is a pattern of it. The Trumpster
>>>>> is an extreme example of it. Let us not forget that enough Americans
>>>>> voted for him that we one the election.  The vast majority of people
>>>>> outside of the US view him as a raving lunatic. Americans voted for him
>>>>> to be their president.
>>>>
>>>> Only one deranged man is in a position to keep changing US policies.
>>>> Everybody else is just along for the ride.
>>>>
>>>
>>> He is not the only one. Go back a little over a hundred years when the
>>> US had an isolationist policy and would not get involved in WWI until
>>> our mutual enemies menaced the US and finally did the right thing.  The
>>> US, IMO had way too much influence in the formulation of the treaty of
>>> Versailles but Wilson got his way. Then the US refused to ratify it.
>>> Back to the isolationism as Germany rearmed and threatened again they
>>> would not fully support its former Allies..... until Japan attacked them
>>> and Germany declared war.  After the war they would not support France
>>> against the Vietminh. They supported a plan to have a vote on Vietnamese
>>> reunification. They were all set for a democratic vote... until they
>>> realized the communists would win  followed by years and years of
>>> American involvement before abandoning their Vietnamese allies.
>>>
>>> They backed Saddam Hussein when he was fighting Iran. They gave them
>>> satellite intelligence on Iranian positions to help them enhance the
>>> targeting of the enemy forces.  After about a decade Saddam was the bad
>>> guy that they allowed to invade Kuwait before going in to evict him from
>>> Kuwait. Then about a decade later invaded Iraq to rid Saddam of the
>>> alleged arsenal of WMDs that weapons inspectors insisted did not exist.
>>>
>>> Face it, American foreign policy is like tumble weed that changes
>>> direction with the wind.
>>>
>>> As I pointed out, it was Reagan who pushed  for NAFTA. It was
>>> implemented under Bush..... both Republicans. Then it was the Moron who
>>> insisted it be renegotiated, and now he doesn't like the deal he
>>> negotiated. Sure, he may he the one who is doing it this time, but is is
>>> part of a pattern with the US.
>> 
>> Yes, you're right, Dave.  The U.S. is responsible for every shitty
>> thing that ever happened in the world.  No other country bears
>> any responsibility.
>
>   Really? That is your read on things.  

That is my sarcasm on things.

> The US has done some good 
> things, but you guys need to get over yourselves. You are not the only 
> democracy in the world and you 

Me?  Cindy Hamilton?

> act as of you are the only country with 
> individual rights, even as we are wondering what happened to them these 
> days. I pointed out a series of major policies that the US has flip 
> flopped on.
>
> We have this current trade war bullshit that the US started. Your leader 
> has decided that Canada and the US have been taking advantage of under 
> the current North American free trade deal, the deal that Trump demanded 
> and got just 6 years ago. T

I think we both agree that Trump is a senile, narcissistic asshole.

-- 
Cindy Hamilton