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Both Trumptards & Libtards, are insane!!!

Post by Zmeselo » 10 Feb 2022, 18:36



LATIN AMERICA
Invoking Monroe Doctrine, US congressman calls Argentina a ‘threat’ over China alliance

Trump-allied Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz called Argentina a “threat” to US “security,” complaining that its alliance with China challenges the 200-year-old colonialist Monroe Doctrine.

By: Benjamin Norton

https://multipolarista.com/2022/02/08/m ... eat-china/

Published 2 days ago



An influential right-wing US lawmaker invoked the 200-year-old colonialist Monroe Doctrine on the floor of Congress and called Argentina a “threat” because of its alliance with China.

Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz, a key ally of former president Donald Trump, said in a speech in the House of Representatives https://www.c-span.org/video/?517753-2/ ... ion-part-1 on February 7 that there is a
significant threat to our nation accelerating rapidly close to home.
Argentina, a critical nation and economy in the Americas, has just lashed itself to the Chinese Communist Party, by signing on to the One Belt One Road Initiative,
Gaetz fumed.



The Florida lawmaker was reacting to the news that Argentina’s President Alberto Fernández visited Moscow and Beijing https://multipolarista.com/2022/02/06/i ... belt-road/ for meetings with Presidents Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping on February 3 and 6, respectively.

Explaining his trips, Fernández said,
I am consistently working to rid Argentina of this dependence on the IMF and the US.
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/67704
I want Argentina to open up new opportunities.
Argentina signed on to join Beijing’s international infrastructure campaign, the Belt and Road Initiative, and China offered the South American nation $23.7 billion in investments and infrastructure projects. Moscow similarly pledged to strengthen political and economic ties with what it called
one of Russia’s key partners in Latin America.


Top US politicians invoke colonialist Monroe Doctrine to justify interventions in Latin America

Representative Matt Gaetz angrily described Argentina’s growing links with China as
a direct challenge to the Monroe Doctrine.
The Monroe Doctrine, which dates back to 1823, was a message to European colonialists that the United States considers Latin America to be its own colonial territory.

Two centuries ago, Secretary of State John Quincy Adams created the doctrine, and President James Monroe made it government policy, insisting that the US would not intervene in the European colonial powers’ spheres of influence as long as they recognized Central and South America to be Washington’s imperial sphere of influence.

This attitude that Latin America is US colonial property is still very much alive today, and thoroughly bipartisan in Washington.

Multiple senior officials in the Donald Trump administration invoked the Monroe Doctrine to justify their coup attempt in Venezuela, https://multipolarista.com/2022/02/02/c ... er-alcala/ including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and National Security Advisor John Bolton. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news ... e-doctrine

This January, President Joe Biden echoed colonial Monroe Doctrine rhetoric by referring to Latin America as Washington’s “front yard.https://multipolarista.com/2022/01/20/b ... ront-yard/

Trumpist Republicans like Matt Gaetz seek war on China

While Matt Gaetz, like his political mentor Donald Trump, sometimes opportunistically criticizes other right-wing factions such as “neocons,” https://twitter.com/search?q=neocon%20f ... ery&f=live he pushes a similarly hawkish imperialist foreign policy.

One constant in virtually all of Gaetz’s speeches is his obsessive demonization of China. He strongly advocates for a new cold war to contain the Asian superpower.

While many neoconservatives and liberal-interventionists push for an aggressive policy against Russia, Gaetz’s message is essentially that China is the real threat to the United States, not the Kremlin, and that Washington should seek war with Beijing instead of war with Moscow.

In his House speech declaring Argentina a “threat,” Gaetz reiterated this talking point, claiming,
China is a rising power. Russia is a declining power. Let us sharpen our focus so that we do not join them in that eventual fate.
Gaetz, who represents Florida’s northwestern Panhandle, joined the Trump administration in strongly supporting https://gaetz.house.gov/media/press-rel ... nst-maduro a right-wing coup attempt in Venezuela.

The Republican lawmaker frequently calls for the overthrow of Cuba’s government as well, while spreading fake news claiming that
Venezuelan thugs, flavored w[ith] Russians, are now ‘kill squads’ going through homes. They are slaughtering adults and abducting children.
Gaetz is closely linked to far-right extremists. In 2018, he invited a notorious white-nationalist blogger https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-reps ... mg00000004 who has promoted Holocaust revisionism to Trump’s State of the Union address.

In addition to his extreme political views, Gaetz has been investigated by US authorities for the alleged sex trafficking of a 17-year-old girl. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... rafficking

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Re: Both Trumptards & Libtards, are insane!!!

Post by Somaliman » 10 Feb 2022, 19:45

I didn't know you had deserted "Trumptards"! I wonder what has prompted you such sudden defection!

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Re: Both Trumptards & Libtards, are insane!!!

Post by Zmeselo » 10 Feb 2022, 22:44

Somaliman wrote:
10 Feb 2022, 19:45
I didn't know you had deserted "Trumptards"! I wonder what has prompted you such sudden defection!
Let me put it this way, confidently!

I bet, you haven't figured Trump out fully either. Let me elaborate:

You & I know, he's not ur standard Republican. Infact, I don't think he cares much about the labels except to just find a way/platform to do what he wants. The evidence of that you see in the Republican establishment, like the Bushes & the Cheyneys going against him so strongly, to the point of voting for Biden. The CIA, FBI etc...all these forces against him. I think either you've to be completely clueless or have balls of steel, to go against all these. So, what kind of political animal is he? The only thing I can say with certainty about him, he's a zionist.


Then I personally liked, how he was totally against Obama & determined to undo every policy of his- from allowing gays in the military to allowing trànsgenders in little girls' bathrooms. He is against abortion (at least, the State funding it) & against sending money to facilitete abortions abroad.

I liked how he trolled the Clintons & threatened Hillary with arrest. We dogded a missile with that woman, in my view. Then I saw from miles away, "the Russia dossier" bs was all a lie & how they hounded him with that for 4 years & I didn't like it a bit. They're still investigating each other, btw. It isn't over by a long shot. He's being investigated for the breach of the Capitol & she for the russian dossier, by a guy named Durham.

For Eritrea, had Hillary become President, the sanctions would not only NOT have been lifted, but I believe they would've been expanded and tightened even more. On Ethiopia, who knows? She might even have sent the Marines into the country to aid the tplf, like she did with terrorists allover the Middle East.

Trump, amazingly, talked even to Kim Jong Un? If left alone, he could maybe have talked to China & Russia too; instead of what's happening today- on the verge of WW3.

Having said all that, I bet he's a racist (shìthole countries...) but who in America isn't- if you know what I mean? Reagan called Africans, monkeys. I don't need to tell you about Nixon, Lbj or George Bush sr. You can surely guess, by yourself.

He's childish, vulgar, a narcissist & very poor rhetoric- wise. But he's a hard worker & the US economy & by extension the worlds', is much stronger under his watch.

To summarize my looong response, would I vote for him if I was a US Citizen? The answer is simply, a no! I just liked him better, in relation to the others. I believe the last true US president, was John F. Kennedy.

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Re: Both Trumptards & Libtards, are insane!!!

Post by Somaliman » 12 Feb 2022, 16:23

We agree on almost all those points that you've discussed.

However, I don't think Trump is a Zionist. He's simply an opportunist and, like any opportunist, he hasn't got any solid principle; he only aligns with people or idea/plan according to his own interests. His blatant favouritism towards Israel was the product of his total alignment with Netanyahu, who got everything he wanted from Trump. Trump was great for Netanyahu and not for Israel.

Trump has a lot of feeling about popularity and fame, to the extent that he wasn't happy to see Jared Kushner gaining fame, saying, "Jared Kushner has become much more famous than me, "I'm a little bit upset about that."

Having said that, the engine behind Trump's pro-Israel initiatives was the fact that he wanted to cultivate his image as the most pro-Israel president in history, without having any deep feeling for Israel or Jews.

Trump is neither pro-Israel (Zionist) nor pro anyone else. Trump is pro-Trump.

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Re: Both Trumptards & Libtards, are insane!!!

Post by Sam Ebalalehu » 12 Feb 2022, 18:34

Well, I am not a Trump fun. In fact, I have believed, still do, he might not be president if not for the current world we live in. In time of information technology most American whites who are high school graduates — the majority in percentage of Americans — felt alienated. The world was changing, and those who have better education irrespective of their race seemed to have a better advantage making it in today’s world. Trump exploited that resentment to come to the presidency. There is nothing wrong with it. Politicians are always laser focused to exploit opportunities.
The radical left on the contrary preaches inclusion. The more voters we have they reasoned the more guaranteed we are to be the constant ruling party.
I am not a fan of either. In US the politics of the middle works best. Therefore I am not crying for the death of the radical right or left. In fact given a chance I work hard for the fulfillment of their death.

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