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Nothing unusual there, but in one image he was seen reading a Persian-language edition of Michael Wolff's book Fire and Fury, which claims that life in the White House is chaotic.
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The photo was posted just days after Iran's President Hassan Rouhani appeared to troll the US in the wake of Mr Trump's decision to pull out of the deal.
Link to tweet
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-44090848
JI7
(89,278 posts)the world knows what a dumbfuck trump is
Chipper Chat
(9,695 posts)Withdraw from the UN?
BumRushDaShow
(129,655 posts)discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,482 posts)The JBS folks were pushing this and some ultra-conservatives pushed this as far back as the '40s.
BumRushDaShow
(129,655 posts)but I know there was opposition to it then given what happened with the League of Nations (in a word, a fiasco) and those who believed it would reduce the U.S.'s power around the world.
But Raygun was probably the first President who spearheaded reducing or eliminating the U.S. contribution of funding towards it.
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,482 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,655 posts)The "Permanent Representatives" (Security Council) should be a rotating group of countries from within each of the largest populated continents (where Australia would be under an "Asia" group). I.e., one each from North America, South America, Africa, Europe, and Asia.
The current body is very much an artifact of WW2.
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,482 posts)Maybe a good idea but a rich and powerful group would find a reason to oppose such a change.
IMHO the current body is an artifact of money. WWI was a bout money; WWII was about fixing what went wrong the first time. With WWII a new age began where the money horizons were greatly expanded.
BumRushDaShow
(129,655 posts)from a famous movie, which basically summed it up rather nicely -
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,290 posts)As a kid in the early 1960s I remember a neighbor who had a bumper sticker that read "Get the U.S. out of the U.N"
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,482 posts)That's where I75 has only a "far right" lane.
pazzyanne
(6,558 posts)Don't give the fake president any ideas. He has enough bad ideas of his own.
tavernier
(12,410 posts)They like to rip the Ayatollahs in pieces, straight out of the coffin.
zentrum
(9,865 posts)..is starting to view us with pity and contempt. Canada, Europe, Africa, Asia, Russia, and South America will do what they can to move on into the 21st Century together, ignoring and managing this stupid, cruel climate -denying oligarchy.
BannonsLiver
(16,506 posts)Ive been fortunate to have traveled internationally fairly frequently. One of the biggest takeaways: America is not the center of everyones universe. I find that comforting.
zentrum
(9,865 posts)
..I'm not wild for authoritarian Russia or China becoming the center either.