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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sun Feb 5, 2017, 03:17 PM Feb 2017

Authoritarian Leaders Greet Trump as One of Their Own

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Kim Jong-un might seem an unlikely player in the global jockeying to get on the new American president’s good side, given the North Korean leader’s implied threats as recently as New Year’s Day to launch nuclear missiles at the United States.

But Mr. Kim apparently sees in President Trump “a good opportunity for him to open a kind of compromise with the new American administration,” North Korea’s highest-ranking defector, Thae Yong-ho, said in an interview with CNN last week.

The bromance between President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and Mr. Trump is the most prominent example of a trend that has swept the world, instilling new hope for a strongman-friendly America in countries like the Philippines, Turkey or Egypt, and among nationalists in many other places who hope to follow in Mr. Trump’s footsteps and gain political power.

Many appear to see a Trump presidency as an opportunity to engage with a like-minded leader who has stated nationalist aims. Others may hope for respite from criticism over their human rights records or authoritarian tendencies. Some, like Mr. Kim and Mr. Putin, might see an opportunity to further their national aims in a new geopolitical order.

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Authoritarian Leaders Greet Trump as One of Their Own (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2017 OP
This won't end well. Sadly I hope Raine1967 Feb 2017 #1

Raine1967

(11,589 posts)
1. This won't end well. Sadly I hope
Sun Feb 5, 2017, 03:23 PM
Feb 2017

that only our nation is affected. While many of us are innocents and voted to do the right thing, the rest of the world does not deserve this.


( I hope that made sense. )

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