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by bluegatty
167 days ago
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I don't believe anything he says. But his statements are the position of the US government aka the most 'truthful' representation of US policy. I'm responding to the notion that because he lies and misrepresents, his statements don't count as representative somehow, which is not true. If he says 'military force is on the table' for acquiring Greenland, we should assume he means to invade if wants. |
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2. "Truthful representation of US government policy"
They are 2 very different things. And even the second one can be easily debated against due to:
1. Discrepancy between what countries say vs. what they actually do. Threats, lies, dishonesty, hiding truth, creative paraphrasing, etc. are normal ways the politics operates.
2. Trump's twitter messaging. What he says does not necessarily represent even his own opinions and policy. Case in point, when he announced the no-fly-zone over Venezuela a few weeks ago. The problem? It was only a tweet. No actual commands/decisions were made/given to the diplomats, bureucracy, military. It was a fake news by the President himself.