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When the leader of the most powerful nation throws breadcrumbs at the people, it must be welcomed. Even if it's an empty gesture, devoid of any real comprehensive policy strategy, it must still be welcomed.
President Trump is an important banner for all those billions of people who hope for a better future THROUGH AMERICAN LEADERSHIP in the world that is much closer to its position of 1945, then that of 2016, under Obama.
When President Trump says these things it inspires...because of who he is.
AND yes the $7 trillion represents a third of USA debt, was a huge waste.....and by estimates, it could well be much higher due to continuing long-term costs, which dont remain static at one point in time. All these costs do not begin to include the huge unaudited waste of the PENTAGON.....buildind Lilly pads around the world.
YES, though he did not say it, fighting wars for Israel AND THE agenda of the Likud party was a huge waste.
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Trump Says US ‘Foolishly Spent $7 Trillion in the Middle East’
One day after a massive Thursday loss at the UN General Assembly on the Jerusalem issue, President Trump complained on Twitter that the US “foolishly spent $7 trillion in the Middle East,” suggesting the focus needed to shift to US infrastructure.
This comment was perceived by some reporters as being about Trump’s threat to withdraw foreign aid from countries that voted against him at the UN, as well as lamenting how little influence the US had actually bought.
Of course, the $7 trillion is mostly not foreign aid, but military spending, and as President Trump is always eager to remind people, he is particularly supportive of massive military increases and has continued and escalated overseas operations, largely in the Middle East, since taking office.
Trump has, however, been fond of presenting the money spent on the Middle East as a waste, making a similar claim back in February, albeit when it was just $6 trillion, and complaining then that the US didn’t get a single oil well out of all that war.
(1. Unless the USA is an old-fashioned European empire, its good practice in the 21st century for legitimate states to conduct their businesses through normal practices. This becomes more critical as the grass-skirted natives are better armed than their hapless ancestors in the 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th centuries where 100 of millions of natives died as the West brought its 'civilisation' and plantations to the rest of the world.....The Spanish Empire in Latin America, the Evil British Empire, Portugal, France, Belgium, Germany and Italy.
2. Oil was illegally stolen via Turkey after the USA invasion of Iraq in 2003, which benefitted certain Bush cronies...and the same with Libya more recently)
(1. Unless the USA is an old-fashioned European empire, its good practice in the 21st century for legitimate states to conduct their businesses through normal practices. This becomes more critical as the grass-skirted natives are better armed than their hapless ancestors in the 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th centuries where 100 of millions of natives died as the West brought its 'civilisation' and plantations to the rest of the world.....The Spanish Empire in Latin America, the Evil British Empire, Portugal, France, Belgium, Germany and Italy.
2. Oil was illegally stolen via Turkey after the USA invasion of Iraq in 2003, which benefitted certain Bush cronies...and the same with Libya more recently)
It is still noteworthy, however, that President Trump does have these moments of reflection, wherein he actually tries to assess what the US has gotten out of all this spending in the Middle East.
It is disheartening, at the same time, that he is able to ascertain that the money was wasted, but has no intentions of not continuing to squander money at an increased rate in the Middle East.
