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For a nation that has gone to war as much as the United States, surprisingly few American Presidents have been elected, failed to win a second term or been impeached because of a matter of foreign policy.
Had Lyndon B. Johnson decided to run in the 1968 Presidential election he may well have lost in part due to the failures of the war in Vietnam, but ultimately he did not run, the Democrats did not choose the anti-war Eugene McCarthy and by the day of the election Robert F. Kennedy, another peace candidate was dead, the victim of a callous assassination.

Donald Trump’s press conference with Polish President Andrzej Duda turned to Russiagate as a US journalist tried to pound Trump on the Russia issue while inside Europe’s presently and historically most anti-Russian country. Clearly there was an attempt to stir tensions unnecessarily on the part of the reporter.

Talk about not being able to move on.
It’s been over 5 months since the 44th and possibly most useless US president ever to hold the office, vacated the White House.
But since then, Barack Hussein Obama has kept up a busy schedule of public addresses and meetings with world leaders.
In other words, Obama has gone right on acting as the US head-of-state. No more and no less.

A new study from Pew Research polled 40,000 people in 37 nations and found that Donald Trump’s presidency has had a “major impact on how the world sees the United States”.

In the brilliant but flawed David Fincher film Fight Club, based on the book by Chuck Palahniuk, Tyler Durden’s (Brad Pitt) underground boxing club reconfigures itself into something called “Project Mayhem,” a skulking, surreptitious program to wreak havoc on the consumerist hive of corporate America. Typical projects included mandates to “destroy a piece of corporate art and trash a franchise coffee bar” in a single act and set skyscraper offices on fire to create a fiery smiley face when viewed from afar.

A few weeks ago, at the end of April, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson acted to put Nikki Haley, the US’s out of control UN ambassador, in her place, telling her through his officials that she should clear any comments she intends to make on contentious issues with the State Department before she makes them.

In July of 2008, Barack Obama, then a candidate for the US Presidency, delivered a campaign style speech in Berlin. Most of his audience were German, but many US nationals living in central Europe enthusiastically attended. Such individuals would of course be eligible to vote in a US election in spite of not living in America.

During his second term in office, Obama again returned to Berlin to speak before a large audience, this time from behind the safety of a bullet proof glass panel.

A recent report from the Japanese outlet Asahi Shimbun appears to confirm a hypothesis recently published in The Duran that America’s recent fervour over North Korea has a great deal to do with the internal politics of South Korea, more so in many cases than it has to do with events in the DPRK (North Korea).