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Dulcinea

(8,613 posts)
Thu Jun 19, 2025, 07:32 AM Thursday

Trump vowed to be a 'peacemaker' but foreign conflicts only ramping up on his watch

(ABC News) President Donald Trump, in January's inaugural address, predicted his "proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker and a unifier."

Six months into his second term, conflicts are raging on three fronts around the world.

Iran and Israel are trading strikes amid fears of an all-out war in which the U.S. could become involved. Russia carried out one of its deadliest attacks on Ukraine's capital in months overnight earlier this week. In Gaza, people are struggling to find food and dozens have been killed in recent incidents near aid locations.

"He's clearly not a peacemaker, but he's not a warmaker, either," Aaron David Miller, a State Department diplomat in the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations -- now at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace -- told ABC News.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-vowed-peacemaker-foreign-conflicts-203154774.html

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Trump vowed to be a 'peacemaker' but foreign conflicts only ramping up on his watch (Original Post) Dulcinea Thursday OP
shithole is pure evil.................... Lovie777 Thursday #1
He's not hildegaard28 Thursday #2
trump LIED to us? Really? No shit? Paladin Thursday #3
Trump lies Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Thursday #4
He still thinks he a game show host who can do no wrong. Aristus Thursday #5

Aristus

(70,226 posts)
5. He still thinks he a game show host who can do no wrong.
Thu Jun 19, 2025, 01:08 PM
Thursday

I don't think the reality of the situation will ever percolate down into what we will laughingly refer to as his mind.

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