Yes, let’s debate Trump’s atrocious foreign policy

President Trump feels cheated the last debate will not focus on foreign policy as it usually does. Of course, had he not cancelled the second debate, the third and last might have considered foreign policy. Trump knows his 2016 victory rested partly on running to the left of Hillary Clinton, opposing senseless, perpetual wars which most Americans dislike. He’s bragged the past 4 years about bringing home the troops.

All lies and exaggeration which need to be called out.
While Obama reduced troop levels by 208,000, from 484,000 to 276,000 during his 8 years, Trump’s decline of is a paltry 46,000. Even his most heralded move to cut 12,000 from Germany, is a sham as half of those are going elsewhere, including a thousand marching east to Poland to intimidate Russia. He hasn’t closed out troops in America’s perpetual war zones of Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria tho he talks about doing so endlessly.

But it’s potential new wars that are the hallmark of Trump’s foreign policy. Right out of the blocks he thundered death and destruction to North Korea, scaring the bejesus out of his seasoned foreign policy advisors. Pivoting to the Middle East, Trump dropped out of the Iran nuclear agreement, imposed crippling war like sanctions, even assassinated the highest ranking Iranian general visiting Iraq. Only the likely election of Biden, who promised renewal of the nuclear agreement and détente, avoided a more ominous Iranian response. In our own hemisphere, Trump ended Obama’s détente with Cuba, increased Cuban sanctions, then gave Venezuela the full monty of murderous sanctions to force the overthrow of hated socialist leader Nicholas Maduro. Every cruel and war threatening initiative against non-enemies failed miserably.

Nor should we forget Trump’s new Cold War with China, blaming them for America’s catastrophic pandemic response that has become the worldwide Gold Standard for needless infections and death.

Trump has become the King of Xenophobia, bashing, even dropping out of life enhancing organizations such as WHO, UNESCO, the International Criminal Court and the Human Rights Council. And don’t ignore Trump’s dumping the Paris Climate Accords, putting us and future generations at great risk from climate disaster.

Only in the delusional mind of mind of Donald Trump is that a foreign policy record to run on.