Glaude Jr. on Ceasefire: Trump Looks Like a Bully with No Real Punch

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GLAUDE: "Well, if you’re an ally you don’t trust the United States. The stain is there. We are in a pretense that we are the moral arbiter of democracy across the world has been thrown in the trash bin. We need to linger on the fact that Donald Trump, the President of the United States, the leader of the free world, said that Turkey needed to have it cleaned out. That the five days is in some significant way, as Samantha Power has tweeted, a kind of gesture towards ethnic cleansing in some ways. So it seems to me that if you’re our ally, you know that this is just the latest Libya, the treaty with Iran. There is no promise that America can make while Donald Trump is in office that the country will keep. If you’re an adversary, you know you have a bully. You know you have someone who’s pliable, who will move if you move him. That if you just simply stand, if you don’t blink, he will blink first. So Erdogan, whether he’s an ally or whether he’s an adversary, he got what he want and Trump looks like what he always looks like, a bully with no real punch."