No. of Recommendations: 52
"But I am hard pressed to think of anyone on the planet who would trust the US government to honour any deal at all ever again, even one signed by the same players. Interesting times." - Mungofitch
"Are you kidding me? The USA has been "agreement incapable" for a long long time. Arguably worse than other countries, because the President and administration changes every 4 or 8 years." - rayvt
You are totally ignoring the degree in "agreement incapable" between the current administrations and past administrations. It isn't even close and to pretend they are the same is absolutely laughable.
In the past, new administrations generally kept to prior administrations agreements even if they didn't like them. Obama held to Bush's agreement on Iraq withdrawal. Biden keep to Trump's Afghanistan withdrawal agreement, Biden kept to Trump's NAFTA negotiation. Heck, Biden even kept to most of Trump's tariffs. Prior administrations generally kept to prior administrations international agreements because the new administrations always understood that the Value of having the word of the USA mean something.
The current administration has reneged on the Paris accords, The Iran Nuclear deal, Ukrainian support, and even his own NAFTA agreement. He regularly threatens to renege on our NATO obligations.
If you do not think this administration has taken it to a greater degree, I challenge you to name any major international agreement that was negotiated by a prior administration that was abandoned by a newer administration? In the past quarter century, the only administration that has done this has been the current one.
But it is just more than international agreements. The current administration regularly says one thing, does something else, then changes his mind a month later and does a 3rd thing. Look at how chaotic the initial Canadian and Mexican tariffs went. F
It is absolutely absurd to say the USA has been "agreement incapable" for a long time. Only someone using poor sources of information that take advantage of them would say that.
