Trump's (& Putin's) Plan to Dissolve NATO & EU

[Allan Balliett]

"Bully-twitter" :-)


On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 8:58 AM ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:

> Should read Will **NOT** antagonize Russia
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> On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 8:56 AM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Trump can't break up the EU even if he wants to. The EU may shed a
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> > nation or two, add a nation or two over the next four years, but Trump
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> > will have little to do with the outcomes. He is certainly putting
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> > Europe and the world on notice that the free trade globalization days
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> > are over and that the US will not sign on to new major trade
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> > agreements, will work to renegotiate agreements, will **NOT** antagonize
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> > Russia and support the expansion of the NATO/EU markets East. He is
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> > sending Mexico and China strong messages. How much of this is bluster
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> > and bully-twitter remains to be seen, but for now he has the attention
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> > of governments who must know that things are likely to change. Europe
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> > seems poised to benefit from a stronger dollar and a stronger US
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> > economy under Trump.
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> > On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 8:22 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
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> >> http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog
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> >> Most people in this country, certainly most members of the political
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> >> and especially its expression in Washington, don't realize what Donald
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> >> is trying to do in Europe and Russia. Back in December I explained that
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> >> Trump has a plan to break up the European Union. Trump and his key
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> >> Steve Bannon (former Breitbart chief) believe they can promise an
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> >> advantageous trade agreement with the United Kingdom, thus
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> >> UK's position in its negotiations over exiting the EU. With such a deal
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> >> place with the UK, they believe they can slice apart the EU by offering
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> >> same model deal to individual EU states. Steve Bannon discussed all of
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> >> at length with Business Week's Josh Green and Josh and I discussed it in
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> >> great detail in this episode of my podcast from mid-December.
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