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Tillerson: At times US needs to separate values, policies
Tillerson: At times US needs to separate values, policies
Tillerson laid out his vision of how President Donald Trump's 'America First' policy meshes with foreign policy, making clear that it still reflected traditional priorities of national security and economic prosperity. "It's America First for national security and economic prosperity and that doesn't mean that comes at the expense of others," Tillerson said, in his second address to department staff.
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He is stating the obvious. The troublesome part is that he had to issue that statement.
No thats not how this works.
It is how it works, unfortunately. That's the reality of international relations.
https://theintercept.com/2017/05/02/trumps-support-and-praise-of-despots-is-central-to-the-u-s-tradition-not-a-deviation-from-it/