QOTD: "Uneasiness About His Unreliability"

 

Nesrine Malik, writing in The Guardian, analyzes the unsteady and untrustworthy foreign policy moves of the Malignant Fascist, which is causing a realignment of nations to protect their economic and national security interests against a once friendly and dependable U.S.:

'In this new phase of Trump’s foreign policy, uneasiness about his unreliability is hardening into understanding that overexposure to the whims of his regime is straight-up dangerous, because there is no degree of investment in him that will bear fruit. A ruthless deal-maker is only worth engaging with when they observe one fundamental rule: once the deal is made, even if it is a bad one, it is abided by. Trump has violated that tenet. And when it comes to Israel, Trump no longer appears as someone who can be persuaded, flattered and wooed by Arab states. He simply does not have the attention span to prevent the conflict from sprawling in ways that are increasingly redrawing the physical and political map of the Middle East. He is a lazy and capricious emperor, sitting on the heap of a nation roiled by violence and crisis."

Malik's entire analysis is well worth a read to understand how the world is seeing us and our "commitments" with the deranged MF in the Oval Office.  It's the same dynamic that has the MF shaking down institutions and businesses in the U.S., only to extract more after the initial compliance and/or flattery.