National Security Strategy

Akita Suggagaki said:

Maybe someone can explain to me how this is consistent with the strategy;

US to allow Nvidia H200 chip shipments to China, Trump says​

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/us-open-up-exports-nvidia-h200-chips-china-semafor-reports-2025-12-08/

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"L'etat c'est moi."

This deal enriches Donald Trump, therefore it makes the United States more prosperous.

Akita Suggagaki said:

The National Security Strategy: The Good, the Not So Great, and the Alarm Bells

This NSS marks an ideological and substantive shift in U.S. foreign policy, as the administration defines a new “America First” foreign policy doctrine that is deeply pragmatic, and perhaps short-sighted. This is a truly pivotal moment in the way the world works.

www.csis.org

“Foreign policy choices will be made based on what makes the United States more powerful and prosperous. That’s fair, and clearly what the American people voted for, but today’s self-interested choices may lead to a far lonelier, weaker, more fractured future. This is a truly pivotal moment in the way the world works.”

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In the mid 1980s, I arrived in one Euro city and was greeted with a sign that said "yankee go home." In spite of that most were friendly and I got a chuckle out of it because I was from the south anyway. That was innocent though compared to how many foreigners are thinking about the USA today. Trump's policies are pushing us away from the world and also causing domestic havoc. Sometimes too it is not just the policy, but the way that he carries it out. Blowing up boats with no release of the facts, detaining professional S. Koreans from a factory under construction, accepting gifts like a plane and gold brick, tearing down the East Wing while saying it would not be disturbed, Noem wearing a Rolex watch to visit a foreign prison, the treatment of Zelensky at the White House, the list goes on and on and while that shows power, it is the kind of power that most people resist. I will suggest too that while other nations are being silent, they will at some point push reciprocal tariffs and demote the USA in her standing, more than most realize if this continues for long. Even many Canadians are alienated from the USA now. That was a hard thing to do but many are now refusing to visit and or buy US made goods. That is just the tip of the iceberg. Meanwhile Trump is surrounded by loyalists who are all saying fair weather and goodness while the whole MAGA platform (Some of which is good) is going down. This will slow down as some in the GOP are on alert and the midterms will bring a correction.

Richard T said:

This will slow down as some in the GOP are on alert and the midterms will bring a correction.

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If President Trump is as bad as you and the liberal fake news try to present him as, what makes you think that there will be a "midterm election"? The fact is President Trump is the most popular president ever with the highest ratings at this point in his term and a huge majority of Americans support his vision and great work he has been doing.

Akita Suggagaki said:

Donald Trump re-entered the Oval Office in January with a net approval rating of positive 6. Since then it has fallen, interrupted only by brief upticks. By early December it had dropped to -18. His polling numbers had only been that low once in his second term, back in October. This week it climbed back a bit, to -16.

Donald Trump’s approval rating

Follow our presidential approval rating poll tracker to see how favourably Americans view Mr Trump

www.economist.com

You have another source not “fake”?

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Most of @Aryeh Jay's posts are tongue -in-cheek.