Why Anti-Imperialists and Anti-War People Should Welcome Trump’s ‘FAFO Diplomacy’
Ron Ridenour, a veteran anti-imperialist activist and writer, says he is happy to see Donald Trump as the US President. But not for any positive reasons about Trump as a politician or his administration. Ridenour has contempt for the 47th president (and many of his White House predecessors.)
Trump’s bullying foreign policy could be coined as FAFO diplomacy: “F..ck around and find out”.
Ridenour, the author of the book The Russian Peace Threat, believes that Trump is “good” in that he is exposing the charade of American claims about democracy and “protecting its allies” of the so-called “free world.”
Trump is so reckless and unhinged he is exploding the myths about Western allies and supposed Western values of democracy and respect for international law.
The claims about US and Western virtues are so absurd. In the eight decades since the Second World War, the United States and its allies have waged more wars than any other nation – and yet they dare to call Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, Cuba, and so on, “threats” to global security.
Ridenour refers to the latest debacle (among many) of Trump demanding the acquisition of Greenland territory under the control of the
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