08-18-2016, 07:17 PM
(08-18-2016, 05:19 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Paradoxically, the more that I hear from Donald Trump on foreign policy I find a surprise: he is to the Left of every main-party nominee for President since at least George McGovern, and I say at least because McGovern may have been so cast by one of the dirtiest campaign apparatuses in American history.
When Vladimir Putin is acting up, this is the wrong time to ditch NATO. I'll stick to Reagan-Bush I results, which is what Barack Obama has gone for.
How long will it be before Alaska secedes from the United States as an "independent" republic whose first order of business is to make teaching of the Russian language* mandatory at all levels of schooling and whose second order of business will be replacement of the US dollar with the Russian Ruble before its third act of business, a request for incorporation into the Russian Federation?
OK, maybe Michigan could secede under a Trump Presidency as an independent republic, only to join Canada, maybe taking Wisconsin and Minnesota along with us... heck, that's 36 electoral votes that Donald Trump will never get, so he might like that. Of course the elections would have to fit Canadian standards of fairness.
*Russian is a language well worthy of study irrespective of one's politics. I love Russian culture but loathe Russian politics.
I've thought all the blue states except New Mexico could join Canada, and it would be a contiguous country. And New Mexico and maybe Colorado could go back to Mexico.