When Barrack Obama left office he had brought chaos to the Middle East and a slow-burning conflict to Europe in Ukraine. Terrorism had increased more than at any time since 911 for Europe and the U.S.A. Illegal alien immigration had established networks of sedulous ‘sanctuary cities in the U.S.A. scoffing at law, democracy and self-determnation of the electorate over immigration levels and work training. President Trump needs to correct all that mess.
When President Trump delivered a stern message to N.A.T.O.. to take their defense obligations seriously. He failed to say that if Russia is perceived as the main danger to Europe then a rapprochement with the Russians such that peace and harmony again develop as it started to under the Reagan-Gorbachev aegis, would allow reduced arms expenses (a threat to arms manufacturers) and increased European economic health. What Europe doesn’t need is stress with Russia instead of love and understanding.
http://www.npr.org/2017/05/25/530051945/as-trump-slams-nato-allies-obama-defends-international-order (a leftist audio rag)
President Obama spoke in Germany with our former bitter and bloody enemies about Americans ‘hiding behind a wall’ in a speech ridiculing national job security. Maybe growing up in a Muslim nation he doesn’t think much about American efforts to liberate Germany from Hitler and the Nazis during the 1940s. Americans weren’t hiding behind a wall then nor would be now if they built a viable national defense barrier against illegal immigration.
Sure walls are built at prisons to keep convicts in. Yet the Welsh leader Offa built a great dike that kept savage, troubled Brits from invading pastoral Wales for some time. The Romans built a wall to keep vile, rapacious, ugly Scot warrior-hordes from attacking the lovely and bucolic southern parts in the primary British isle. Mexican hordes of job-plundering international anarchists wreaking havoc on the value of labor in the U.S.A. can be kept at bay with a salt-water desalination canal (condensation from evaporation) on the border while making water if the administration has a little good sense. The water can be piped in from the Pacific ocean using solar powered pumps.
Cheap labor is damaging to the efforts to treat all lawful Americans fairly and even to change the economy to a sustainable atmospherically benign activity. The U.S.A. could show Mexico how to build a health and sustainable ecospherically cool economy if it had a clue about how to do that itself.
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