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This isn't a Trump thing. Rather, the insistence on democracy as the Frist Principle through which the United States will deal with you is the change in traditional US foreign policy - not Trump. If anything, Trump is returning the US to more of a Realpolitik stance of the type most frequently espoused by Kissinger and Nixon but also employed by every other post-WWII US President: Truman, Eisenhower, JFK, LBJ...only until you get to Jimmy Carter do you see a move away from that model.
Carve this on your dashboard: Steve agrees with Dope. All you need to do is look at the horrible dictators that the US backed, in Iran, Chile, Argentina, Nicaragua. All the US required was that the dictator pay lip service to being "a good anti-Communist". Lets throw in the dictators in South Korea and the Philippines. How many thousands of people did the Argentine junta grab off the street, never to be seen alive again? But, when the junta invaded the Falklands, a UK possession, did the US send a carrier strike group, so the Brits had decent air cover as they defended their territory and their citizens? Nope. Must not upset the "good anti-Communists".
Steve
