Trump Is Giving This Country Its Identity Back

[hollodero]

(04-16-2017, 03:21 AM)BFritz21 Wrote: Trump steps in and it's like he's demanding our respect in the world again, and not in a bullying-type way, but more in a "if you mess with us, we'll knock you out" sort of way, and just in a "if you mess with your own people, we'll step-in and knock you out."

Right now that's not what he gets though. That you can drop some explosive stuff isn't news to anyone, your willingness to do it doesn't make the world go wow. It always depends on the goals and whether there are some goals to see. The Syria strike did close to nothing effectively and this mother of all bombs, well ok, but if that causes some drastic swifts is yet to be seen and highly doubted.
Overall, Trump and the USA with him is losing respect in the rest of the world, not so much for the military actions, but because of other things. I live in said rest, I ought to know. It's dramatic, actually. For whatever that means, but just that you know.

(04-16-2017, 03:21 AM)BFritz21 Wrote: Trump is bringing us back to a country that leads in the world, not follows.

Well, leadership is more than dropping stuff. We followed Trump, and what is worrisome in his "leadership" is his gross inconsistency. The world doesn't want to be lead by someone where you have no idea what he's up to tomorrow. We heard him say America first and that you would stop policing the world, that action in Syria is very stupid and might lead to a world war and whatnot. Later that's obsolete, but we have no idea what is and isn't obsolete next week.
What the rest of the world, almost unanimously, would want from a leading country is taking lead in all pressing issues, starting with preserving the planet. Even China is far ahead in that regard now. You seem to pull out of every agreement, and that estrangens the US from the world. Never mind the CC hoax debate per se, it's just that hardly anyone outside the US thinks so, and if you do then you're not really a world leader, even with Tomahawks and bombmothers.