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Topic	Politics Containment Topic 173: Web of Schneiderman
red sox 777 05/13/18 12:29:20 PM #187:	Corrik posted... red sox 777 posted... Well, Israel has always been the United States' best ally, they are a tier above everyone else and the only country where we are in it primarily for their benefit, not ours. For the rest, I may be conflating personal relationships with Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping for the relationships with the countries, but I also feel Trump doesn't see as big a difference between those things as most presidents do. What? UK is definitely our best ally. Has been forever. So both countries have said since World War II, but what action has it produced? We threatened them with cutting off their oil in the 50s to force them to leave Egypt, and since then, I can't think of any controversial issues that arose where we treated them any better than the rest of Western Europe. They blindly followed us into Iraq, this is true, but that's more a reflection of how they see the alliance than we do. --- September 1, 2003; November 4, 2007; September 2, 2013 Congratulations to DP Oblivion in the Guru Contest! <cite>red sox 777 posted [p:901273265] in Politics C... [t:76595984]...</cite> <quote><cite>Corrik posted...</cite> <quote><cite>red sox 777 posted...</cite> <quote>Well, Israel has always been the United States' best ally, they are a tier above everyone else and the only country where we are in it primarily for their benefit, not ours. For the rest, I may be conflating personal relationships with Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping for the relationships with the countries, but I also feel Trump doesn't see as big a difference between those things as most presidents do.</quote> What? UK is definitely our best ally. Has been forever.</quote> So both countries have said since World War II, but what action has it produced? We threatened them with cutting off their oil in the 50s to force them to leave Egypt, and since then, I can't think of any controversial issues that arose where we treated them any better than the rest of Western Europe. They blindly followed us into Iraq, this is true, but that's more a reflection of how they see the alliance than we do. --- September 1, 2003; November 4, 2007; September 2, 2013 Congratulations to DP Oblivion in the Guru Contest!</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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