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"Where's that blob of superglue gone?"
"It's right here, Mr President."
Mr Putin said *D*16 Mr President, he's hit your aircraft carrier amidships
 
Yes. But then I don't live in America
Probably won't matter for long, what with the proposed "kith and kin" immigration policy.

Look, some of my former countrymen and women might be headed your way. And you might be free to go live in my old white supremacist stomping ground, particularly if you like weak beer, pork burgers, country crafts, coon hunting and church every Sunday morning.

May to discuss how to boost US-UK migration with Trump, say sources
PM’s approach following exploratory talks with Australia raises prospect of a ‘kith and kin’ immigration policy after Brexit
 
Probably won't matter for long, what with the proposed "kith and kin" immigration policy.

Look, some of my former countrymen and women might be headed your way. And you might be free to go live in my old white supremacist stomping ground, particularly if you like weak beer, pork burgers, country crafts, coon hunting and church every Sunday morning.

May to discuss how to boost US-UK migration with Trump, say sources
PM’s approach following exploratory talks with Australia raises prospect of a ‘kith and kin’ immigration policy after Brexit
Coming over here making all our foreign policy!
 
Sanders offers to work with Trump on a new trade deal after Custer issues executive order on TPP.



Donald Trump signs executive order to withdraw from TPP trade deal

Would be great if anything actually came of that. For all the flack Trump's getting for being Trump... he's already done well by scrapping TTP (and as I keep banging on about, seeming to cancel our Great Eastern Crusade). He'll have to work harder to inflict more damage on Western civilisation like he promised, by now Clinton would have done much better.
 
Trump Strikes at Abortion With a Revived Foreign-Aid Rule
The president has reinstated a contentious policy that blocks funding to international family-planning organizations unless they agree not to promote abortion.

To be fair, I suspect days are numbered for US foreign aid full stop. Consider the recent questionnaire to the State Department from the Trump "transition team"about aid to Africa, including:

With so much corruption in Africa, how much of our funding is stolen?
Why should we spend these funds on Africa when we are suffering here in the U.S.?
We’ve been fighting al-Shabaab for a decade, why haven’t we won?


Pretty sure the Trump Team see aid as just throwing good money after bad.
 
Trump Strikes at Abortion With a Revived Foreign-Aid Rule
The president has reinstated a contentious policy that blocks funding to international family-planning organizations unless they agree not to promote abortion.

To be fair, I suspect days are numbered for US foreign aid full stop. Consider the recent questionnaire to the State Department from the Trump "transition team"about aid to Africa, including:

With so much corruption in Africa, how much of our funding is stolen?
Why should we spend these funds on Africa when we are suffering here in the U.S.?
We’ve been fighting al-Shabaab for a decade, why haven’t we won?


Pretty sure the Trump Team see aid as just throwing good money after bad.
Stop foreign aid and cede the floor to china
 
Stop foreign aid and cede the floor to china
been thinking about that concept of 'soft power' recently and beyond 'buying/building next mans infrastructure' I was stumped to think of what else counts as soft power- other than 'sphere of influence' stuff. Any thoughts?
 
been thinking about that concept of 'soft power' recently and beyond 'buying/building next mans infrastructure' I was stumped to think of what else counts as soft power- other than 'sphere of influence' stuff. Any thoughts?

Cultural products are the classic example
 
Trump Strikes at Abortion With a Revived Foreign-Aid Rule
The president has reinstated a contentious policy that blocks funding to international family-planning organizations unless they agree not to promote abortion.

To be fair, I suspect days are numbered for US foreign aid full stop. Consider the recent questionnaire to the State Department from the Trump "transition team"about aid to Africa, including:

With so much corruption in Africa, how much of our funding is stolen?
Why should we spend these funds on Africa when we are suffering here in the U.S.?
We’ve been fighting al-Shabaab for a decade, why haven’t we won?


Pretty sure the Trump Team see aid as just throwing good money after bad.

This will severely impact a massive range of projects. No American aid money to any organisation whose range of activities include informing women about their choices, even if that is a tiny part of what they do and even if the us money was never put towards that part of their budgets.
 
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