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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts) Mon Jul 9, 2018, 08:32 AM Jul 2018

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Can you name a greater American diplomatic debacle than the botched Korean negotiations ?

Asking for a friend.

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Can you name a greater American diplomatic debacle than the botched Korean negotiations ? (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Jul 2018 OP

Munich in 1939? COLGATE4 Jul 2018 #1

Must edit. DemocratSinceBirth Jul 2018 #2

Not really. After all, Munich was not an "American debacle". COLGATE4 Jul 2018 #9

Peace in our time? peekaloo Jul 2018 #4

Actually, yes snowybirdie Jul 2018 #3

Trump capitulated to Putin a long time ago. Turbineguy Jul 2018 #5

The coup in ronatchig Jul 2018 #6

Indochina in the late 1940s and 1950s. NT mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2018 #7

Iraq under Dubya. Archae Jul 2018 #8

COLGATE4

(14,732 posts)

1. Munich in 1939?

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Mon Jul 9, 2018, 08:45 AM

Jul 2018

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)

2. Must edit.

Reply to COLGATE4 (Reply #1)

Mon Jul 9, 2018, 08:46 AM

Jul 2018

COLGATE4

(14,732 posts)

9. Not really. After all, Munich was not an "American debacle".

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Reply #2)

Mon Jul 9, 2018, 02:10 PM

Jul 2018

<My bad. Didn't think it through before responding.

peekaloo

(22,977 posts)

4. Peace in our time?

Reply to COLGATE4 (Reply #1)

Mon Jul 9, 2018, 08:47 AM

Jul 2018

I was about to say Neville Chamberlain.

snowybirdie

(5,222 posts)

3. Actually, yes

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Mon Jul 9, 2018, 08:47 AM

Jul 2018

Because it's going to be worse after his Putin capitulation this week. He's a fool!

Turbineguy

(37,312 posts)

5. Trump capitulated to Putin a long time ago.

Reply to snowybirdie (Reply #3)

Mon Jul 9, 2018, 09:41 AM

Jul 2018

This is just a safe-house meeting with his case officer.

But Putin may have figured out that Trump really isn't up to the task. For one, he's already been exposed. He carries too much baggage. I'm wondering if Putin will give trump an exit. A palace in Crimea that turns out to be a 2 room apartment in Novosibirsk.

ronatchig

(575 posts)

6. The coup in

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Mon Jul 9, 2018, 10:09 AM

Jul 2018

Iran in the fifties . With the fullness of time that criminal act has come back to bite us in many ways. Not the least of which is the general distrust of USA throughout the middle east. Talk about blow back.

mahatmakanejeeves

(57,370 posts)

7. Indochina in the late 1940s and 1950s. NT

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Mon Jul 9, 2018, 10:11 AM

Jul 2018

Archae

(46,311 posts)

8. Iraq under Dubya.

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Mon Jul 9, 2018, 10:13 AM

Jul 2018

First, blame Saddam for 9-11.

Second, make up fantasy "WMD's."

Third? "He's a bad guy."

Result? Chaos in Iraq, and ISIS.

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