The Media is fixated on how politicians change their opinion or talk without getting anything in return. It's "Oh I was for the war before I was against it" or some BS like that. Trump is truly looking out for America and will MAGA.
Indeed
I wish the Pearl clutches and chattering class would pay attention
Great article! Thanks.
Some college here...and even I get what our POTUS is doing. Its called sharp instinct, clear insight and no fear. Thank God for him and I thank God for him everyday and every-night in prayer. We are in good hands and if we could just get rid of the rest of the swamp we would be really doing great.
I cannot wait til he kicks ryno to the curb.
Excellent article. I have been saying much the same, but Sundance does a better job.
Trump primed all this during the campaign by saying that the leaders of China, Mexico and other places were very, very, smart, much smarter than our leaders.
Flattery works.
Who is Sundance, the author of this excellent work?
My first thought after reading this article was “I wish Trump had run in 2008.” On second thought: 2000.
Trump is truly looking out for America and will MAGA
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great article! thanx for posting this
Border crossings are reportedly down to a trickle - does this mean we don’t need the wall too?
I wrote what’s below a few days ago on another thread about the Trump WH running multiple Actions\Sprints in order to achieve ideal Outcomes across domestic and foreign policy...seems that Sundance is spot on with his analysis as usual!
“Sometimes I struggle to put down the thoughts I have about Trump and how he operates, how he expects those around him to operate, and ultimately the outcomes he expects based on his and his teams actions...I can see it in my mind and across multiple fronts, it ‘feels’ right...maybe the best analogy is the one many of us have used ever sense he got into the primaries; that being Trump seemed to be playing chess with everyone around him...now I feel like he’s playing multiple games of 3d chess at the same time; moving from game to game making moves...
Washington operates in a serial fashion with one topic moving thru the cycle at a time...to me, Trump says to hell with that, we’re going to have multiple streams of actions\sprints moving towards the rightful outcome at the same time...if we’ve got 5 things we’re acting upon and we get the desired outcome on 3, then we accept that 2 need to be reworked (healthcare), analyzed and the at the right moment, put back into the cycle to achieve the intended outcome...
as an example, let’s use the Syrian strike as our center of gravity since that’s been the main subject of discussion across the nation...both here on FR, in the media, and everywhere in between...in the past I’ve noticed that when something like an airstrike happens, everything else stalls and stands still...that’s what is expected because that’s how things have always been done...well, if you know anything about Trump then you know that norms do not apply; in fact they’re completely ignored and put out to pasture...he’s exhibited this behavior over and over again...I really like to watch it in action because all of the usual suspects are looking and talking about what’s happening over there, while Trump and his team are pursuing multiple outcomes in another set of places...
a few days on either side of the strike on Syria, the following actions\sprints were being run by the Trump WH
- Executive Order freeing up the Arctic and offshore areas for energy exploration (Energy Sprint, Economic Sprint)
- Golf with Senator Paul around healthcare (Healthcare Sprint)
- Syrian Strike (America’s Back Sprint, Moral Sprint, Message to Russia Sprint)
- China PM Weekend with strike occurring during visit (Trade Sprint, Manage your Problem Child Sprint)
- 1 or 2 Carrier groups sailing towards NK
- AG Sessions announces that our immigration laws will be upheld...this is only the beginning of what I think will becomes more and more expansive (Immigration Sprint, Nation of Laws Sprint, etc.)
There are others and the above sprints have multiple intended outcomes but these 5 actions encompass 2 foreign policy outcomes and 3 domestic outcomes, with some of the actions affecting both foreign and domestic policy...
So, what are some of the results...
- China refusing shipments from NK and sending the ships back
- China massing troops on the NK border...don’t know if that’s real or not
- China openly stating today that they\China will take out NK nuclear capability if NK doesn’t play well with others
- China giving some early trade concessions
- Russia looking really bad on the whole Assad thing
- Putin probably now meeting with Rex the T-Rex
- Putin realizing that he misses Obama
There are other good outcomes but you get the picture...
And all the sprints that were happening before all of this are continuing in the background (Obama Spying, etc.)...
My whole point is that Trump is a problem solver who just happens to love America...he is committed to fixing it! I’m enjoying watching him make his vision a reality...
Stand shoulder to shoulder with him in the breach on a daily basis...trust his instincts and his judgement and never ever underestimate him.”
TG
Nailed it.The public assertion against x brings the behavior y. X is a bargaining chip if you will.It can be played at any time and indeed replayed if necessary. The press however wants to create divisions between POTUS and his supporters They are not interested in his subtleties of negotiation.Nor does it appear do some on FR.
I agree with article.
I was not happy with the Syria attack. But I decided to watch afterwards just to see what happened and Trump is thinking strategic and tactical moves that are fascinating
Syria is leverage move.
To be honest I’m really surprised the old foreign policy hands really not picking up on this because this is some of the most sophisticated political maneuvering I’ve ever seen
The truth is Trump is damn brilliant tactically and strategically. The left is too stupid to get that his Bluster is one of his tactics
Trump os maneuvering with the Chinese and Russians with the same skill that he went through the primaries and took out 16 components and then pulled up the upset of the century beating Hillary
This is the best post I’ve read in weeks! Thank you.
85 days straight of winning . . .
A lot of folks just do not seem to notice that Trump is using his expert negotiating skills to get better deals & only judge him on “changing” rhetoric.
It’s the bureaucratic mindset that says you’ve got to have pieces of paper that say you’ve “done something.” These pieces of paper, policies, bills, formal statements, are the currency of DC. It’s how they, and the media, measure political “success.” They compete to pile them up, it’s their yardstick of worth. Trump comes from another world, with a different set of criteria for measuring success. If he makes an apparently extreme, if demonstrably true statement, say that China is unfairly manipulating currency exchange to their economic benefit, and China changes their behavior, where is the piece of paper that proves that to the people seeking to measure him in DC? There is none. So, they go on to call him a flip-flopper, as if stating that China has unfairly manipulated currency exchange is some sort of permanent state of affairs that cannot be changed without “official” action. And on it goes, NATO, illegal immigration, jobs. Maybe he needs to at least symbolically play their little game with pieces of paper, so they’re not quite so adrift in a world that they just can’t comprehend.
What this piece proves, without a shadow of a doubt, is that our previous presidents were (take your pick, kids):
inept
corrupt
*or*
diabolical
I’ve already tired of all the Trump-bashing, myself.
If he is able to bring the Chinese along as “enforcers” to neutralize/end the NK threat, he deserves the Nobel Peace prize right here and now.
I've read reports that the chicoms stopped their currency manipulation the day after the election. Could be fake news, or maybe they saw the writing on the wall. Hussein 0bama and his gang probably didn't know what currency manipulation was, or they would have been cashing in to line their own pockets. At any rate, there are much bigger fish to fry now that the NORKs are offering daily to nuke us, and if giving in on this point gets the chicoms to help, that's a major plus for us.
....”President Trump is fundamentally realigning international geo-political alliances and almost no-one is connecting the dots......
Well I think people are realizing this....but it’s disturbing to me seeing China, Russia, and Iran playing so cozy with one another now....Obama pushed them closer together with his sanctions but they’re operating far too closely for my taste today.
Bump for excellent article.
Trump has been correct all along in saying that Russia, China and even Mexico have had better leaders over the last few decades than us. Thankfully that is all changing now .
When I see how much wonderful work Trump has managed to achieve so far it makes me madder and madder by how much we have been short changed by corrupt, free loading globalists like the Obamas, Bushes and Clintons