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Congressperson says US president and Marco Rubio are tearing apart transatlantic alliance

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has accused Donald Trump of tearing apart the transatlantic alliance with Europe and of seeking to introduce an “age of authoritarianism”, as she condemned his administration’s foreign policy in front of its allies’ top policymakers at the Munich Security Conference.

Speaking at a panel on populism on Friday, Ocasio-Cortez outlined what she called an “alternative vision” for a leftwing US foreign policy, challenging the Trump administration’s shift to the right in front an audience of US allies who have grown increasingly wary of the US’s increasingly nationalist – and militaristic – global posture.

In her remarks, Ocasio-Cortez said Trump and Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, were “looking to withdraw the United States from the entire world so that we can turn into an age of authoritarianism”, as they sought to “carve out a world where Donald Trump can command the western hemisphere and Latin America as his personal sandbox, where Putin can saber rattle around Europe and try to bully our own allies there”.

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[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago

accused Donald Trump of tearing apart the transatlantic alliance with Europe

This is not merely an accusation, it's a statement of fact.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 10 points 9 hours ago

She's not wrong.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 17 points 11 hours ago

Trying?

Oh honey please. Bless your heart.

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 19 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Sounds pretty Presidential to me

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world -4 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

Sadly, most men, despite their politics, will never vote for a woman.

[–] dreamkeeper@literature.cafe 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

We just elected our firstwoman as governor in VA and she won by a larger margin than any other Democrat since the 70s

Sick of the whining that America won't elect a woman when Clinton won the popular vote and Kamala replaced a guy with a 37% approval rating, yet ran on his platform anyway... and that was in the middle of massive inflation. Your sample size is 2.

Clinton would've been president if it weren't for that dumbass James Comey

[–] mattyroses@lemmy.today 1 points 3 hours ago

They do in every other country. Heard the same about Mexico for years.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

I'd be willing to bet the problem has more to do with the shit sandwich of corporate-whore-elite neoliberal-lite than it has to do with sexism.

People all over the developed world are hungry for real change and leadership; most are just too ignorant and propagandized by an oligarch-controlled media to know what would improve their lives. All they know is that they don't like the path the world is taking. The vast majority of people born in the last 50 years do not want more of the last 50 years.

[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I think the issue is that running this piss poor canidates doesn't encourage the voter base to vote and there will always be a percentage of the population that will not vote for a woman.

When elections are decided by a couple of percentage points and you run a bad canidate then the sexists get to decide the outcome.