(06-05-2024, 11:00 PM)Lucky2Last Wrote: Tell me you know nothing about foreign policy without telling me you know nothing about foreign policy.

Tell me you are incapable of original thought without telling me you are incapable of original thought. 

And this clown calls me "arrogant"
LOL 
what a joke

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ON TOPIC:

World Leaders hate the idea of having to deal with Trump for any number of reasons. 

You can start with this list of foreign policy screw ups from his time in the White House:
(some of the issues listed here have worsened since the time the article was published - just after he lost re-election) 

Quote:... consider how he handled relations with China. He tried to get Chinese President Xi Jinping to put more pressure on North Korea; Xi refused.
 He tried to get China to make major structural reforms and end its predatory trade and investment practices, and he eventually launched a costly trade war in an attempt to force Beijing to comply. That didn’t work either, because China retaliated and adapted; U.S. businesses, consumers, and farmers bore most of the costs of Trump’s tariffs; and Trump chose to pressure China unilaterally instead of lining up other countries alongside the United States. 
The administration’s escalating campaign against Huawei, ZTE, TikTok, and other Chinese technology firms has hurt these firms in the short term, but it has also spurred Chinese efforts to reduce its dependence on U.S. technology and may eventually cost U.S. firms a lot of future earnings.

Not surprisingly, relations with China have spiraled steadily downward over the past four years.
That decline is not entirely Trump’s fault; it is in many ways hard-wired into the emerging structure of the international system. 
What is Trump’s fault is America’s deteriorating position within that structure and its failure to take advantage of Beijing’s own missteps. China has cracked down in Hong Kong and on its Uighur minority (reportedly with Trump’s approval), clashed with India along the Himalayan border, continued its territorial encroachments in the South China Sea, and gone to considerable lengths to bully Australia, a longtime U.S. ally. It has taken advantage of Trump’s abandonment of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) to negotiate and sign a new Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership with 14 other Asian nations, and it just completed a new investment agreement with the European Union. 
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Trump’s handling of the other Asian great power—Russia—was no better. He told supporters back in 2016 that “we are going to have a great relationship with Putin and Russia,” and Trump’s steadfast deference toward Russian President Vladimir Putin remains something of a mystery. Yet Trump never made a serious effort to improve relations or drive a wedge between Moscow and Beijing, even though doing so would have made good geopolitical sense. Apart from sanctioning a few more Russian officials, however, Trump didn’t do very much to challenge Russia either. Instead, Trump got himself impeached for trying to bolster his reelection prospects by withholding U.S. aid to Ukraine until Kyiv dug up some dirt on the Biden family.

Trump's willingness to kowtow to dictators all over the globe whilst frivolously backing out of the worthy trade and security agreements installed by prior administrations is probably the most obvious giant red flag. 

Sprinkle in getting caught attempting to aid his election by withholding aid in a quid-pro-quo deal to besmirch the current President, and it should be really obvious why international leaders want nothing to do with this horribly unqualified candidate. 

Of course if you need more, you can review the videos of him literally being laughed at by dozens of world leaders as he rambles incoherently about how great he is while addressing NATO in Brussels. 
That visit is probably when foreign leaders realized the days of referring to a US president as "leader of the free world" were over. He wasn't interested in the free world, but only himself.
 That hasn't changed.

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