Trump's Pursuit Of Nationalistic Foreign Policies Alienates Longtime US Allies

[DonViejo]

By MATTHEW LEE and JOSH LEDERMAN | June 21, 2018 2:19 pm

WASHINGTON (AP) — As Donald Trump presses ahead with plans for a summer summit with Russia’s Vladimir Putin, the U.S. president is jolting relationships with some of America’s longest and strongest allies. Amid concerns over Trump’s apparent desire to be cozy with the Russian leader, he is pursuing increasingly nationalistic foreign and trade policies and delivering scathing personal attacks on traditionally friendly leaders who don’t share his views.

The White House announced Thursday that national security adviser John Bolton would travel to Moscow next week, after stops in London and Rome, to discuss the potential Trump-Putin meeting, expected to be held in the Austrian capital of Vienna in the days following NATO’s July 11-12 leaders’ summit in Brussels. Administration officials say a White House advance team has traveled to Vienna to scout locations and make other logistical preparations for a summit should it come off.

Bolton’s stops in Britain and Italy may be designed to assuage nervous Europeans about Trump’s intentions for the Putin meeting, which would come just weeks after Trump stunned European allies by suggesting that Russia should be re-admitted to the Group of Seven club of industrialized economies without forsaking its annexation of Crimea for which it was expelled in 2014.

Yet the hawkish Bolton’s discussions in the European capitals are unlikely to smooth over what are becoming widening fractures in the trans-Atlantic relationship that the president has seemed to welcome.

To Trump, the tough approach to allies constitutes a long-needed reassertion of U.S. sovereignty following a worrying period of decline in which Washington was too deferential, too politically correct on the world stage and too trusting of global institutions to look out for America’s best interests. Those who complain that the status quo is being upended, Trump argues, are correct — and missing the point.

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[redstatebluegirl]

1. His supporters don't care.

That is the sad thing.

[Wellstone ruled]

2. Well,Germany is very aware of what

Trump/Ross/Kudlow are doing. BMW will be taking actions that will effect those Trump Voters in I believe Georgia where their Plant is located. Do Know most of the Autos built in that plant are exported to Europe and China.

Never forget this formula when it comes to any Assembly or Manufactured Item,one line worker effects up to seven related other jobs. So whom ever is living in or working for a BMW related area,good luck,it is not going to end very well for those.