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Originally Posted by Pete F.
Yea, we’re going broke.
And we got to be the wealthiest country in the world with an isolationist foreign policy, right?
What isolationist policy? Is asking member states of NATO to contribute their agreed upon financial share an isolationist policy? Seems very engaged as policy, not isolationist. Is asking China not to steal US intellectual property and putting tariffs on products manufactured in China (with which Biden admin. agrees works) isolationist policy? Seems very engaged to me. Was restructuring NAFTA an isolationist treaty. Seems very engaged to me. Was creating separate trade deals with Viet Nam, South Korea, the UK, Japan, and others isolationist actions? Seem very engaged to me. Was meeting with North Korea regarding its nuclear ambitions isolationist? Was Sanctioning Russia and Iran isolationist? Was helping to create peace agreements in the Middle East an act of isolation?
Giving money to Central American elected mobsters and criminals with no strings other than keep your people from leaving is about as far from Reagan’s foreign policy as you can get.
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The money was already being given. It was an ongoing policy from previous administrations. And much of it was already going to corrupt elected officials. And wasn't doing much of what it was supposed to do. As is the case with a great deal of foreign "aid." Wasn't doing much for us other than virtue signaling. Since most foreign aid money is a form of bribery to make countries act the way we want, Trump actually getting something worth wile for the U.S. is a plus.
And as for your reference to Trump's policies being far from Reagans, Biden mostly publicaly opposed Reagan's policies, even though what Biden proposed and lobbied for was similar to Reagan in its support of military, para-military, "far right" solutions.
Since you like to argue by posting lengthy articles, here's one for you and anyone interested in our political engagement in Central and South America which, in respect to Biden, the article spells out in detail. Biden's history of political involvement with countries south of our border has not been beneficial to those countries--quite the contrary. And his current border policies are not beneficial to the U.S:
https://covertactionmagazine.com/202...is-presidency/
An interesting, but only a small fraction of the damning commentary in the article:
"The 'Salvador solution' entailed paramilitary and death-squad activities and state-sanctioned terrorism. Biden knew all about this as he had backed money and training for El Salvador’s death squads in the 1980s. Despite mostly opposing Reagan’s foreign policy in Central America, Biden said there was a “need to send U.S. military equipment to the region [Central America].'"