Yes most definitely. He has not started any new wars.
— fishfry
Got very close with Iran. Really close. — ssu
The Dems are chomping at the bit for more wars. The selection of Biden is a huge win for the war party. Don't you remember the 2016 GOP debates when Trump knocked Jeb! out of the contest by attacking him for his brother W's war?
— fishfry
He as the neocons were Republicans, as you likely know. — ssu
I was thinking of this as well - along with the many images shared on social media by supporters of Trump atop a tank in a cartoonish fashion, things exploding everywhere, Trump holding a bazooka or rifle. We also have neocon backers of Trump - the American Enterprise Institute is one, I believe. And then we have the Erik Prince association with the Administration through DeVos. Trump's book, Time to Get Tough, has a chapter simply entitled, "Take the Oil." I also recall a sort of to and fro "saber rattling" between Trump and North Korea. I also recall when Trump first announced his "America First" campaign in such a way that basically said something like we're steering the world order unilaterally - that's how it sounded to me at the time anyway - with the fairly ridiculous sounding sugar coating "as all nations should put their nations first" - I wondered how "peaceful" he struck the rest of the world watching. Trump kicking around the "China Virus" in concert with Pompeo reportedly encouraging the G7 to refer to it as the "Wuhan Virus" also raise an eyebrow. — Kevin
Yep.Trump blusters about military strength and then avoids war. That's his style. Ignore everything Trump says, watch what he does. — fishfry
Watch what he does, not what he says. — fishfry
Trump blusters about military strength and then avoids war. — fishfry
You know what. I don't think Trump plays even the two dimensional chess. Too many rules, not interesting.If he is tacitly endorsing these energies or outright encouraging them and/or fully cognizant but ignoring them in what he says but somehow nevertheless "striving for peace in what he does" - this seems to me to lead to something like contributing to a more warmongering public in order to get votes whilst playing 11d chess as StreetlightX put it elsewhere — Kevin
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