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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,170 posts)
Wed Dec 20, 2017, 03:31 PM Dec 2017

Trump suggests US will cut off aid for countries that vote for UN resolution

President Trump suggested on Wednesday that the United States could withhold foreign aid for countries that vote in favor of a United Nations resolution calling on the U.S. to withdraw its recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital.

Speaking at a Cabinet meeting, Trump echoed a comment made U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley a day earlier, saying that the U.S. would take stock of the countries that voted for the resolution, which is set to go before the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday.

"I like the message that Nikki sent yesterday at the United Nations for all of these nations that take our money and then they vote against us at the Security Council, or they vote against us potentially at the assembly," he said.

"They take hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions of dollars, and then they vote against us. Well, we're watching those votes," he added. "Let them vote against us, we’ll save a lot. We don't care."

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/365825-trump-suggests-us-will-cut-off-aid-for-countries-that-vote-for-un

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Trump suggests US will cut off aid for countries that vote for UN resolution (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2017 OP
That's fine, China will take up the slack Iliyah Dec 2017 #1
Happily get the red out Dec 2017 #3
Aid doesn't generally go to investment opportunities. Lot's of aid is for imports of US weapons. FarCenter Dec 2017 #12
That's the plan. China-Russia rise to superpower status together. Irish_Dem Dec 2017 #6
dictators don't take 'no' for an answer spanone Dec 2017 #2
For the sake of his vanity and pride and ego... the US does so at its own peril. NurseJackie Dec 2017 #4
Post removed Post removed Dec 2017 #10
Day by day America is becoming the most despised regime in the world, bar none. Fred Sanders Dec 2017 #5
Trump does know a bit about buying votes and returning favors Freethinker65 Dec 2017 #7
Have they returned favors? NCDem777 Dec 2017 #11
So now . . . peggysue2 Dec 2017 #8
There is nothing he isn't an asshole about. Vinca Dec 2017 #9
And AIPAC expands its power over the U.S. to encompass the rest of the world LastLiberal in PalmSprings Dec 2017 #13
The old "Jews run the world" antisemitic tripe. grossproffit Dec 2017 #14

Irish_Dem

(47,324 posts)
6. That's the plan. China-Russia rise to superpower status together.
Wed Dec 20, 2017, 03:36 PM
Dec 2017

The old Sino-Soviet bloc rises again.
America falls to second or third place.

NurseJackie

(42,862 posts)
4. For the sake of his vanity and pride and ego... the US does so at its own peril.
Wed Dec 20, 2017, 03:35 PM
Dec 2017

This petty and punitive act only serves to diminish the US. It opens the door for Russia and China to step-in to the void. We lose respect. We lose a strategic advantage. We lose the ability to guide and influence the various situations in each country and region.

Response to NurseJackie (Reply #4)

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
5. Day by day America is becoming the most despised regime in the world, bar none.
Wed Dec 20, 2017, 03:36 PM
Dec 2017

Apparently being despised translates to "respect" in Deplorableze.

peggysue2

(10,839 posts)
8. So now . . .
Wed Dec 20, 2017, 04:01 PM
Dec 2017

even our UN representation will be mirrored after the Bully in the WH, the Shout Loudly and Carry a Little Stick theory in Foreign Relations.

Make it Stop

13. And AIPAC expands its power over the U.S. to encompass the rest of the world
Wed Dec 20, 2017, 09:35 PM
Dec 2017

It's like a wet dream from them. Not only do they control the U.S. Middle East policy, but by extension they can whip the rest of the nations in line through their control of the Orange One.

Russia has hold of one of Donnie Two Scoops' balls, AIPAC has a death grip on the other. Hillary and President Obama reside in the depths of his mind, where his greatest fears lie. And surrounding all this is his fragile ego, which can be triggered by as little as a tweet by Fox and Friends or a comment by Hannity.

And God forbid if the North Korean leader calls him "old."

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