Trump Foreign Policy: Doing The Same Thing And Expecting A Different Result By Ron Paul!!
(2018-12-08 at 12:11:09 )

Trump Foreign Policy: Doing the Same Thing and Expecting a Different Result by Ron Paul

After a week of insisting that a meeting with Putin on the sidelines of the G20 meeting in Argentina was going to happen, President Trump at the last minute sent out a Tweet explaining that due to a Russia-Ukraine dispute in the Sea of Azov he would no longer be willing to meet his Russian counterpart.

According to President Trump, the meeting had to be cancelled because the Russians seized three Ukrainian naval vessels in Russian waters that refused to follow instructions from the Russian military.

But as Pat Buchanan wrote in a recent column: how is this little dispute thousands of miles away any of our business??

Unfortunately it is "our business" because of President Obamas foolish idea to overthrow a democratically-elected, pro-Russia government in Ukraine in favor of what his Administration believed would be a "pro-Western" and "pro-NATO" replacement.

In short, the Obama Administration did openly to Ukraine what his Democratic Party claims without proof the Russians did to the United States: meddled in a vote.

United States interventionism in Ukraine led to the 2014 coup and many dead Ukrainians.

Crimeas majority-Russian population held a referendum and decided to re-join Russia rather than remain in a "pro-West" Ukraine that immediately began discriminating against them.

Why would anyone object to people opting out of abusive relationships?

What is most disappointing about President Trumps foreign policy is that it did not have to be this way. He ran on a platform of America first, ending foreign wars, NATO skepticism, and better relations with Russia.

Americans voted for this policy. He had a mandate, a rejection of President Obamas destructive interventionism.

But he lost his nerve!

Instead of being the president who ships lethal weapons to the Ukrainian regime, instead of being the president who insists that Crimea remain in Ukraine, instead of being the president who continues policies the American people clearly rejected at the ballot box, President Trump could have blamed the Ukraine-Russia mess on the failed Obama foreign policy and charted a very different course.

What flag flies over Crimea is none of our business. We are not the policemen of the world and candidate Trump seemed to have understood that.

But now President Trump is in a trap.

He was foolish enough to believe that Beltway foreign policy "experts" have a clue about what really is the United States of America national interest.

Just this week he told the Washington Post, in response to three United States soldiers being killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan, that he has to keep United States troops fighting in the longest war in United States history because the "experts" tell him there is no alternative.

He said, "virtually every expert that I have and speak to say if we do not go there, they are going to be fighting over here. And I have heard it over and over again."

That is the same bunkum the neocons sold us as they lied us into Iraq!

We have got to fight Saddam over there or he would soon be in our streets.

These "experts" are worthless, yet for some reason President Trump cannot break free of them!!

Well here is some unsolicited advice to the president:

Listen to the people who elected you, who are tired of the United States as the worlds police force.

Let Ukraine and Russia work out their own problems.

Give all of your "experts" a pink slip and start over with a real pro-United States of America foreign policy: non-interventionism.

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