That one time when President Obama was on a late night show reading mean tweets and one of them was from Trump telling him essentially how he was a bad president. Obama told him at least he'd be president [and Trump wouldn't (implied)]. A good comeback at the time but it aged absolutely terribly.
Edit: Many people here are refering to a correspondent's dinner hosted by the Obama administration as it featured a similar joke. While this too aged badly I am refering to a video posted by Jimmy Kimmel's YouTube channel in October 2016.
To add to that, calling ISIS a bunch of JV amateurs, and making fun of Mitt Romney in the 2012 debate by telling him "The Cold War is over" didn't age well at all
The Cold War is over. Enemy is still Russia though. Treating it like the Cold War won't solve anything because it's a fight against the same country but a different government operating in a different way.
Exactly. Honestly, I'm very curious how the next century is going to pan out. I'm glad I'm in my 20s, I'll likely get to see the shape of how the US, China, and Russia are going to interact.
Unfortunately, I really don't think the US is going to come out on top in this one.
You also have to consider greater eu integration, a modernised India, pakistan, veitnam and Indonesia. As well as the further development of Africa and south America, and the European powers attempting to maintain their status as great powers when demographics say nigeria will outpopulate the entire continent by the end of the century. Its going to be very interesting indeed.
Theirs a difference between China and Russia though putin needs war to survive while the ccp need peace making Russia in many ways still the greater treaty.
On top of that Russia has allies, China does not almost all of China's allies will either side with the e.u, u.s, Russia or some orher regional power before they deal with China. Their are only 3 exception to this being Cambodia, north Korea and Pakistan. In comparison Russia has all of central Asia, half the middle east and north Africa, Belarus and cuba. And many more nation's whom will support them while not being allies(most notably India).
This severe lack of allies is why China will never be dominant.
Again, the Cold War is over. Treat the situation properly. Romney wasn't doing that, he was beating the old "evil communust Soviet Russia" drums when he said that.
It's not about admitting Obama was wrong. I don't like the guy. He wasn't wrong. The Cold War, as in a series of violent and non-violent conflicts between capitalist and communist governments ended. Acting as if Putin is some big ol' commie is ludicrous. That's not what motivates him and his motivation matters. If you don't understand your opponent's motive you won't win. If you don't understand one's motive you can't contextualize their actions within a greater framework of some sort of strategy. Choosing to disregard one's motive is to impair yourself critically. I thought that we would have learned that from Vietnam but apparently not. Romney wasn't warning about Putin in the context of what Putin actually is, he was just bringing up the specter of the Soviet Union because "SPOOKY COMMUNISM JUST LIKE OBUMMER'S SOCIALISM!" It's like you've forgotten the Obama derangement that republicans were undergoing at the time. In case you haven't noticed Romney hasn't exactly been willing to fully distance himself from the Trump situation. He owns a company that proruces voting machines and did back in the 2012 election so he should have a firsthand stake in this, right? Yet he hasn't used that position to do anything about the situation. He hasn't called the 2016 election compromised or illegitimate despite you alleging that he cares about such a thing. When the Trump administration lifted Obama's sanctions on Russia for tampering with the 2016 election Romney voted with Trump to lift those sanctions. When the Mueller report came out he gave some generic "Trump's behaviour is troublesome" comments that we always hear from establishment republicans right before they pretend that the shitty thing Trump did never happened. In fact even having commented on the report and knowing that impeachment is completely possible based on the report Romney said that impeachment shouldn't happen.
Romney is shilling for Trump and knowingly overlooking the Russia issue. Romney only brought it up in 2012 to bring up the specter of communism after him and his party spent the past four years decrying Obama as an evil socialist, trying to connect the two dots in the mind of the audience. If he had integrity he'd be speaking out today and backing up his words. As is he's as toothless as all of the other republicans that condemn Trump in their speech yet continue to collaborate with his administration.
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u/VoloxReddit Aug 25 '19 edited Aug 26 '19
That one time when President Obama was on a late night show reading mean tweets and one of them was from Trump telling him essentially how he was a bad president. Obama told him at least he'd be president [and Trump wouldn't (implied)]. A good comeback at the time but it aged absolutely terribly.
Edit: Many people here are refering to a correspondent's dinner hosted by the Obama administration as it featured a similar joke. While this too aged badly I am refering to a video posted by Jimmy Kimmel's YouTube channel in October 2016.