1. The US is a profligate and wasteful country. Isn’t our average annual trade deficit around $600 billion since our imports are twice our exports?
2. Once or twice an hour, Trump declares the US subsidizes Canada $100 billion or $200 billion a year. Isn’t this a complete lie?
3. NATO should have been ended when the Warsaw Pact ended. Now NATO encircles Russia after expanding from 16 to 30 countries! Didn’t NATO expansion begin in 1999 under Clinton?
It only takes 4 or 5 minutes for a missile to travel from Ukraine to Moscow. Why has the US been deaf since 2000 to Russia’s demand for security and sovereignty rights?
Biden shot a medium-range ballistic missile 200 miles into Russia on Nov 19. Moscow retaliated with a missile strike on an ammunition depot in Ukraine on Nov 21. Russia shot a Oreschnick missile 10 times the speed of sound that can’t be detected. Ever since the Oreschnick missile was shot, no NATO country has shot another missile at Russia. Aren’t citizens in a democracy entitled to complete information?
US foreign policy seems fixated on enemies and power-projection. Doesn’t Russia have a right to exist as part of Europe and a member of the UN!
According to one estimate, the US has spent $10.4 trillion on wars since 2000. More meaningful jobs can be created in education.
Militarism was sold to us as life-insurance and has devoured our budget! Audits have revealed one or two trillion dollars in military spending cannot be accounted for! Instead of being a source of hope, the US has been a predator country unwilling to admit its folly or its endless wastefulness! Are there any signs of a true accounting?
The UN Charter proscribes wars and threats of war. Nevertheless, Trump threatened war against three sovereign countries at the UN General Assembly!
Is the Investor-State Dispute Settlement system still functioning? Corporations could sue states for loss of future profits while states could not sue corporations! Mexico, Canada and Latin America lost millions. Were the three-judge tribunals corrupt?
For many years, China financed the US debt. Why can’t the US say a positive word about China providing smart-phones very inexpensively?
Will the US create a food shortage by deporting millions of immigrants? Don’t immigrants help our economy in agriculture, construction, and hospital work?
Has the US ever apologized for its many vetoes in the UN?