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The Story - World Affairs

 The Story... World Affairs

The United Nations was created to resolve differences through diplomacy and to bring people and nations together after WWII.
NATO was created during the Cold War to stop the the advancement of the Union of Soviet Social Republics and it was hoped that with the fall of of the Soviet Union, NATO would be Abe to stand down. However, with Russia now invading Ukraine (including others over the last two decades), it is has not stopped Vladimir Putin's desire to rebuild the once mighty empire.
The was a story in the 1980's going around that countries that had a McDonald's restaurant didn't go to war against each other because the theory was that with Western Capitalism, they could meet their needs through commerce and not through war. Peace through suburbs... So we started doing business with China to build common goals.
USAID has been a program started in the 1950's to work on our soft-power diplomacy to build up other nations so they would be secure enough to not be susceptible to communist expansion.
For those of us who believe in the common dignity of humanity and that diversity is a blessing in our world. Making alliances and helping other people no matter their culture, nationality, and religion. All of these things are good for the world and, therefore, good for our country.
This administration is deliberately picking fights with our friends and allies here in North America and across the world. Their belief is that other nations are either with us or against us, and to be with us you have to kiss the President's ring, unless of course you are a dictator/autocrat and give our current President the flattery he so wantonly craves.
This administration's focus on obtaining Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal is a more is better plan; showing that it has its own empire it wants to build so this President can be seen as one of the big boys. The interest in Gaza is purely economical and egotistical as our 'beloved' leader wants to see his name on one of those exclusive beach front properties. Ignoring world history of bad things happening to autocrats and oppressive regimes, they are out to re-create the world in their own image and do not give a shit about anyone else once they have gotten what they needed from the voters, the Evangelicals, and the MAGA movement (though they may need them to 'secure' their hold on power). If this was a movie, Elon and Trump are the puppets having their strings pulled because they have shown that they aren't the masterminds(with their ties to China and Russia and mobsters everywhere), just the master manipulators getting their base fired up.
I truly hope our allies and friends around the world don't give up on us yet and that we, as patriotic Americans, can get our own house in order very soon. May we go forward and reclaim our democracy.

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