G20 CLOSES WITH REBUKE TO TRUMP’S CLIMATE CHANGE STANCE

>US President Donald Trump won the 2016 election on an “America First” platform that would pull the country out of several multilateral trade deals and negotiations, as well as the landmark Paris Agreement on climate change.

>The US had threatened to impose new tariffs on steel imports into the country, a comment that prompted European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker to threaten the same in return, giving early warning signs of a trade war.

>The leaders had been at an impasse over climate change and trade for most of the summit, and Merkel had made it clear that the US’ stance on the issues had made talks difficult.

When you're the lone voice against 19 other leading nations.
That's intentional leadership you can believe in.

>>155972

https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/world/2017/05/30/german-chancellor-angela-merkel-now-leader-free-world/102308694/

>>155972
Fingers crossed.

>>155972
If he had a voice that would be something.
He had nothing. He went there, stood around, had nothing to contribute for the US, for the world, for our allies, for any other country, and left. Less america first and more pretending the rest of the world doesn't exist.

In a couple of weeks, one eighth of this presidential term will be over. All of his achievements thus far have been written for him to sign or handed to him in the form of open seats to nominate. THings that require zero effort. "Somebody needed to throw a few teacakes at the guests, and conservatives don’t do that. But Trump never moved on from there. He just stuck around to throw everything else."

>>155989
He did exactly what I wanted him to do - stand apart from the Globalists

>>155999
how does that benefit us?

>>156002
Globalists want a global society ruled under some sort of unelected elite ruling family class. The EU is basically the foundation of this.

>>155972
>oh no these other nations don't like that I'd better stop

Said Trump, never.

>>156003

>Globalists want a global society ruled under some sort of unelected elite ruling family class.

Who are you talking about? Which globalists? Me? I wanna work with other countries to mitigate risks of runaway global warming. I wanna trade with other countries and have allies. I'm not convinced things like the WTO are detrimental to the US.

I get that you think it's a slippery slope but I'm not convinced of that. Why can't we just have some cooperation where it's mutually beneficial in the long term and reserve our right to withdraw from those relationships at will, which is basically what we already have?

>>156008
Cooperation is fine, as long as the US and other free nations get to choose their own path without being strong armed

>>156009

The US isn't in any binding agreements that I know of. If we legislated all the terms of the Paris Agreement we are still fully under control of undoing them on the basis of internal decision making.

Middle America has issues. Immigration is a real issue. But shit like the Paris Agreement, the WTO, NAFTA aren't the reason why wages are stagnant and politicians are unresponsive. Shit like Citizens United ruling and lack of campaign finance reform means big business drowns out everyone else's voice is the reason that the working class isn't seeing a rise in living standards that accompanies a rise in productivity. Fossil fuel multinationals, bankers, insurance companies have done a spectacular job getting Americans to misidentify culprits and to distract them beyond hope.