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Trump foreign policy:
-1 Increasing sanctions on Cuba
-1 Increasing drone strikes in the middle east and Africa
-1 Not enforcing Minsk II
-1 stealing Iranian tanker
-1 Blowing up the guy who beat ISIS, while he was on a peace mission in a third country
+1 Calling off the war with Iran at the last hour
+1 threatening to leave NATO
-1 increasing funding for NATO
+1 Afghanistan withdrawal agreement
-1 escalating trade war with China
I can't give him one for North Korea since it didn't result in anything but a silly photo where Trump salutes some random north Korean soldier.
edit: What are the downvotes for? Does anyone disagree with my analysis? Is there someone out there chomping at the bit for war with Afghanistan, Iran, China, and Russia and starving Cubans?
I think some people have problems with your evaluation of the last few points.
I'm not gonna give him credit for calling off the war with Iran, since it was his own stupid decisions that got us there.
There are a lot of NATO fans here, so you're catching flak for the +/- evaluation on both of those points.
The withdrawal from Afghanistan was a goddamn trainwreck, so I don't think he should get points for that. Not entirely his fault, because the actual exodus didn't happen under his watch, but his timeline certainly didn't set his successor up for success.
But in general, saying anything even vaguely complementary towards Orange Julius is gonna earn you some downvotes around here.
It's still -1 on Iran, blowing up Soleimani was insane.
In 2010, the Afghani people had 3 problems, the US, Kabul, and the Taliban.
Now they have 1 problem. It was bound to be this way since the day we went in and gave the people a bigger problem than the Taliban. Kabul wasn't even part of the negotiations.