What a SHAME.... and a DANGER. Let me explain...
The United States has been a leader in the free world.for decades and, soon to be a century. Building from WWI and the Wilson League of Nations, the US established both a mechanism - a world-wide conference of nations - and its power of leadership in managing international relations from the start of peace after 1919 at the Treaty of Versailles - 100 years ago this year. On January 10, 1919, the League of Nations was formed, mapping a course to a more peaceful future. That body failed much for the same reasons that the Articles of Confederation failed the US as a strong architecture for a free nation forming for a better future. We re-wrote our nation - through a US Constitution in 1789, far better and stronger than the Articles of Confederation. After WWII, the failed "League" was replaced by the UN Charter.
WWII brought bloodshed as the inter-connected tendons of the League faltered and failed with the emergence of nationalism underscored by dictators, and nationalists brandishing military machinery, manufacture, and might. With the loss of millions of lives, the war ended with the defeat of the dictators and the re-emergence of international dialogue through the birth of the UN in October of 1945 - just 2 months after the surrender of Japan. Once again, the US became the leader of the free world and the host to the UN. Within a few years, NATO was formed (4/4/1949) to defend liberty and freedom against the growth of the cold war with Russia and the nations that had been overtaken by Russia and incorporated into the USSR. Stalin rattled sabers, built up a military force, nuclear weaponry, and threatened the globe with continued violence and death. NATO - led by the US - resisted for 2 generations led by both Republicans and Democratic presidents, and finally succeeded - with tearing down the "wall" that separated East and West Germany on November 9, 1989. Ronald Reagan was then President and led the US for 2 terms. The next 4 Presidents - 2 Democrats and 2 Republicans - continued to uplift and expand NATO and to encourage and support the activities of the UN.
What a history! Ending bloodshed, expanding economic opportunity, managing peace, and encouraging freedom. This is the century long history of the American role around the globe. Until Trump.
Trump is falling into the very same patterns - "strong man" autocratic national leadership, nationalism, erosion of alliances, ignoring international relations and relationships, and rattling the saber. He has allied in part with our enemies - Russia and Putin, N. Korea and Kim Jon-Un, and abandoned the international cooperation and dialogue via the UN. Growing the military, encouraging "Americanism" as a lone nation, building a WALL instead of tearing down a wall, and Isolating the US from our historic allies in NATO and beyond, like South Korea and Japan through abandonment of treaties, alliances, and common ground and interests. King Donald, lapsing into historic paranoia and psychotic behavior, is bring the world down the path to destruction that has been traveled before, and is altogether avoidable today. The time has come for him to go - by IMPEACHMENT or ELECTORAL DEFEAT.
Time to get off the Trump road to dismemberment and destruction. Time to March On to a better future.. and not to the disappointing building blocks of the past.
Stand Up! Speak Out! Resist! Persist!
Tick-tock......... 2020....
Bobby J
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