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What's at stake in the presidential election? Two visions of the world.

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Jean-Luc Basle
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Donald Trump is not a man of peace, but he knows the United States no longer have the means of its policy. He reminded his electorate that the United States spent $7 trillion in their fight against terrorism. [11] And what does the United States have to show for it? Nothing but deaths, casualties and debts. Afghanistan is a new Vietnam. [12] Bashar al-Assad is still President of Syria. Russia is fighting alongside in Iran, at the mullah's request, allowing Moscow to return to the Middle East - an area it had long left. For all intents and purposes, China is now allied with Iran. Iraqi oil which was supposed to pay for the 2003 country invasion, according to Donald Rumsfeld, George W. Bush's Defense Secretary, is now exploited by China. The United States' foreign policy of the last twenty years is a dismal failure.

Donald Trump attempted to move away from it on several occasions. He has no sympathy for Kim Jung-un, but he wishes to make peace. Similarly, he is not about to kiss Vladimir Putin on the mouth - Russian style - but he knows that Russia is not a threat to the United States. Increased trade relations between the two nations would benefit them both, especially the United States - not to mention the fact that it would draw Russia away from China - America's strongest challenger.

Donald Trump or Joe Biden

So, there we are. Americans - citizens of the world's most powerful nations and oldest democracy - are given a choice between a real estate loose cannon and a befuddled has-been a la Andropov. Under the circumstances, they should choose the lesser of two evils, Donald Trump - a president who did not start a war in his mandate, as opposed to his predecessors - rather than Joe Biden - a man who embraces the neoconservatives' policy of everlasting wars and world domination, and whose greed was recently revealed by a Senate report. [13]



[1] "A list of the times Trump has said he won't accept the election results or leave office if he loses." CNN

[2] "Clinton says Joe Biden should not concede on election night 'under any circumstances'". Reuters

[3] Preventing a disrupted presidential election and transition.

[4] Washington, Oregon and California.

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