Be afraid. Be very afraid.
On NATO:
1. he is not threatening to withdraw from NATO. Far from it. He would honour Article V of The Washington Treaty;
2. He thinks the USA is not doing enough in Ukraine, but also that neighbours of Ukraine should also help. This shows just how ignorant he is of the whole NATO-used-Nazis-for-regime-change thing, which provoked the war in Ukraine and ultimately the MH17 disaster;
3. He thinks that the USA pays too much in to NATO and gets very little in return, and that a possible renegotiation of finances and duties is over due;
4. He also thinks that perhaps NATO should change its priorities to fighting terrorism because the foe that NATO was created to protect against, the USSR, is no longer there;
5. and that this would mean changing from a slow, cumbersome military to a rapid deployment force.
On Israel:
1. he believes that the only solution is a two-state solution;
2. he also believes that the Palestinians are the only ones who are violent;
3. he also believes that Israel has a right to exist.
On the US military:
1. he believes that the US military is weak;
2. and that nations should pay for the USA to have their bases on their soil;
3. and that nations should also pay 'protection money' (sounds like a Mafia Don speaking).
On the Middle East:
1. he would like to see the Gulf states invade Syria to take out ISIS;
2. he wants several safe zones in Syria;
3. he thinks Iran is the troublemaker and is taking over the oil in Iraq.
On his foreign policy team:
1. they are from a military background, not diplomatic (which does not bode well).
On surveillance and Snowden:
1. Trump believes that Snowden did "a great disservice" to expose the extent of intrusive spying by the NSA;
2. and that the level of spying and surveillance should be secret.
He is still very, very proud of his speech at AIPAC, and believes that America was great around the start of the 20th Century (which is why Great Britain engineered WW1 to destroy the American System of Economics), and shortly after WW2 (which Trump says America won, but Soviet Russia lost tens of millions fighting the Nazis while the USA lost about a half million).
The only thing he said about Putin was that Putin is a strong leader, but Trump had a real go at China at ripping off the USA through trade deals and currency devaluations.
He wants payments from nations for protection in order to repay the soon to be $21 trillion debt that the USA has.
But he also lied about his support for wars on Iraq and Libya: he still claims in the interveiws that he opposed those wars, but thet sad truth is that he supported them when they started, and only after they were over did he begin to express opposition to them.
I can see why the Establishment is concerned about him, but his foreign policy is not too different from theirs.
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