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<blockquote data-quote="fishtm2001" data-source="post: 4734129" data-attributes="member: 54375"><p>1) By March 2015, the US had <a href="https://www.dsca.mil/news-media/news-archive/first-us-armored-hmmwvs-arrive-ukraine-greeted-president-poroshenko" target="_blank">committed</a> more than $120 million in security assistance for Ukraine and had pledged an additional $75 million worth of equipment including UAVs, counter-mortar radars, night vision devices and medical supplies, according to the Pentagon’s Defense Security Cooperation Agency.</p><p></p><p>That assistance also included some 230 armored Humvee vehicles.</p><p></p><p></p><p>2)The trade war with China, which began in 2018, has dealt a major blow to U.S. agricultural exports.</p><p></p><p>After over a year of escalation, by the fall of 2019 <a href="https://www.piie.com/research/piie-charts/us-china-trade-war-tariffs-date-chart" target="_blank">retaliatory tariffs</a> by China had covered virtually all U.S. agricultural products. As a result, exports of key goods such as soybeans experienced <a href="https://www.choicesmagazine.org/choices-magazine/theme-articles/us-china-trade-dispute-and-potential-impacts-to-agriculture/theme-overview-uschina-trade-dispute-and-potential-impacts-on-agriculture" target="_blank">steep declines</a>, resulting in losses to U.S. soybean farmers of over US$10 billion. friend<a href="https://www.fsa.usda.gov/programs-and-services/market-facilitation-program/index" target="_blank">armers and ranchers received $8.5 billion</a> in taxpayer subsidies for 2018 losses and $14.3 billion for 2019.</p><p></p><p>3) On jobs; There were 76 straight months of job growth before donald took office. Offshoring and the loss of manufacturing plants have continued. The manufacturing trade deficit has been above trend since 2016.</p><p></p><p></p><p>4) On ISIS; In 2014, the Obama administration launched a military campaign called <a href="https://dod.defense.gov/OIR/" target="_blank">Operation Inherent Resolve</a> to use <a href="https://theglobalcoalition.org/en/" target="_blank">U.S. and allied troops</a> and provide <a href="https://theconversation.com/2-reasons-and-1-disease-that-make-peace-in-syria-so-difficult-133330" target="_blank">aid to other groups</a> to fight the Islamic State group. The 72-nation Anti ISIS coalition stated “<a href="https://icsr.info/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/ICSR-Report-Caliphate-in-Decline-An-Estimate-of-Islamic-States-Financial-Fortunes.pdf" target="_blank">by November 2016 Islamic State had lost 62%</a> of its mid-2014 ‘peak’ territory in Iraq, and 30% in Syria.” And the British think tank IHS Markit reported that by the final months of Obama’s presidency, Islamic State territory in Iraq had <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-much-territory-has-isis-lost-2016-10" target="_blank">shrunk from 40% of the country</a> to just 10%.</p><p></p><p>I could go on but I find that engaging in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent to be quite boring.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="fishtm2001, post: 4734129, member: 54375"] 1) By March 2015, the US had [URL='https://www.dsca.mil/news-media/news-archive/first-us-armored-hmmwvs-arrive-ukraine-greeted-president-poroshenko']committed[/URL] more than $120 million in security assistance for Ukraine and had pledged an additional $75 million worth of equipment including UAVs, counter-mortar radars, night vision devices and medical supplies, according to the Pentagon’s Defense Security Cooperation Agency. That assistance also included some 230 armored Humvee vehicles. 2)The trade war with China, which began in 2018, has dealt a major blow to U.S. agricultural exports. After over a year of escalation, by the fall of 2019 [URL='https://www.piie.com/research/piie-charts/us-china-trade-war-tariffs-date-chart']retaliatory tariffs[/URL] by China had covered virtually all U.S. agricultural products. As a result, exports of key goods such as soybeans experienced [URL='https://www.choicesmagazine.org/choices-magazine/theme-articles/us-china-trade-dispute-and-potential-impacts-to-agriculture/theme-overview-uschina-trade-dispute-and-potential-impacts-on-agriculture']steep declines[/URL], resulting in losses to U.S. soybean farmers of over US$10 billion. friend[URL='https://www.fsa.usda.gov/programs-and-services/market-facilitation-program/index']armers and ranchers received $8.5 billion[/URL] in taxpayer subsidies for 2018 losses and $14.3 billion for 2019. 3) On jobs; There were 76 straight months of job growth before donald took office. Offshoring and the loss of manufacturing plants have continued. The manufacturing trade deficit has been above trend since 2016. 4) On ISIS; In 2014, the Obama administration launched a military campaign called [URL='https://dod.defense.gov/OIR/']Operation Inherent Resolve[/URL] to use [URL='https://theglobalcoalition.org/en/']U.S. and allied troops[/URL] and provide [URL='https://theconversation.com/2-reasons-and-1-disease-that-make-peace-in-syria-so-difficult-133330']aid to other groups[/URL] to fight the Islamic State group. The 72-nation Anti ISIS coalition stated “[URL='https://icsr.info/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/ICSR-Report-Caliphate-in-Decline-An-Estimate-of-Islamic-States-Financial-Fortunes.pdf']by November 2016 Islamic State had lost 62%[/URL] of its mid-2014 ‘peak’ territory in Iraq, and 30% in Syria.” And the British think tank IHS Markit reported that by the final months of Obama’s presidency, Islamic State territory in Iraq had [URL='https://www.businessinsider.com/how-much-territory-has-isis-lost-2016-10']shrunk from 40% of the country[/URL] to just 10%. I could go on but I find that engaging in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent to be quite boring. [/QUOTE]
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