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The new measures, outlined by Bolton in a Miami speech, follow an announcement by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that the administration will lift restraints that have prevented lawsuits from U.S. citizens seeking compensation for property expropriated by the Cuban revolutionary government that seized power there six decades ago.

 

Good luck with that.

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10 minutes ago, ByWatterson said:

This seems like a move with literally no upside, diplomatic or political. 

 

It's pandering to old Cubans living in Florida, so it does seem like run of the mill Trump pandering to his base. 

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Any country that enters into an agreement with us needs to be extremely cautious. There's no bipartisan consensus on what exactly is our policy towards virtually any country, so you run the risk of an extremely different policy every four years. And Congressional buy in or approval doesn't help either, see the Iran nuclear deal.

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1 hour ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

Any country that enters into an agreement with us needs to be extremely cautious. There's no bipartisan consensus on what exactly is our policy towards virtually any country, so you run the risk of an extremely different policy every four years. And Congressional buy in or approval doesn't help either, see the Iran nuclear deal.

 

True, but to be fair that's just the nature of democracy in international relations. We aren't any better but we should be trying.

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4 minutes ago, Greatoneshere said:

 

True, but to be fair that's just the nature of democracy in international relations. We aren't any better but we should be trying.

It's far worse when you're the biggest dog on the block, and have a ~60 year history of relatively stable policy towards other countries.

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8 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

It's far worse when you're the biggest dog on the block, and have a ~60 year history of relatively stable policy towards other countries.

 

For sure (that we are so important as a country/empire on the global stage that we have the greatest of responsibilities here). But I'm not sure I'd say we have had 60 years of relatively stable policy towards other countries. We have toward certain other countries (Europe, Japan/South Korea, Canada, Mexico kind of), but we certainly have had many disingenuous policies towards other countries (Central and South America, Africa, Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia). But I understand your point that we are now creating unstable policies with the former as we have been doing with the latter for decades. 

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1 minute ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

Nah, we've been consistently undermining leftist/popularly supported governments across the world, especially in the third world. That's actually where we're most stable!

 

Right, but the instability comes from how outwardly we appear to not do that, which tricks the populations of those countries into believing our lies which we then undermine, which is instability. 

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12 minutes ago, SFLUFAN said:

Not a single person in those affected countries believes a word we say.

 

You'd be surprised, based on my anecdotal interactions - at least referring to previous decades (not anymore) that @b_m_b_m_b_m was referring to. That's definitely changed now, I agree. Surely Trump's base has taught you that people the world over are pretty close to being legally and medically considered mentally handicapped/challenged and are prone to being more gullible than not towards institutions of power.

 

Your optimistic take is surprising. :p 

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