“I strongly disapprove of the current foreign policy direction. First, America’s unconditional support for Israel has meant funding a genocide and the continued theft of Palestinian land, despite international human rights organizations condemning these actions, all while American taxpayers foot the bill. Second, the war in Iran is, perhaps, one of the most inhumane and reckless decisions of this administration. The first 100 hours of the war alone cost $3.7 billion. Bombed Lebanon 100 times in 10 minutes, being described as “one of the deadliest single bombing campaigns in the history of a country wracked by decades of war and destruction. These campaigns are not targeting “terrorists”; they are murdering innocent children and civilians. A war worsening the already dire unaffordability crisis. Gas is $6.00. Initial strikes were launched while negotiations were still active, justifications have constantly shifted, and there appears to be no end game. Most of the unbudgeted money that could have been funneled toward addressing America’s unaffordability crisis. The US and Israel are currently functioning as one of the largest terrorist organization in the world, funded by taxpayer dollars.
“First, he is ushering us into an era where it is OK to be racist to people. But as it relates to foreign policies, it is a negative direction. He is pushing us in the direction where everyone is going to be against everyone, which is not good for the community and for growing together. He is going to isolate the U.S.”
“The way he’s taking us, we’re going to end up an isolated, all-alone country with no allies, especially because that 21-mile strait controls over 30% of the world’s oil. So, by restricting 30% of the world, we’re not just hurting Iran, quote, unquote, we’re affecting China’s oil, which, you know, they hold a lot of our debt. Militarily, we might be able to beat those guys, but when it all comes down to us, strategically, we can’t beat those guys, even though we think we can. Just because we have the weapons and the manpower doesn’t mean we can. Trump is not better than everybody. He is just the same as every other dictator who has tried to do this for years. When you put a guy in office who’s so compromised and can’t say no to anybody, this is the foreign policy you get. When you have a guy that doesn’t have a backbone or moral compass, you get dumpster fire foreign policies like this that lead us into never-ending wars.”
“Going in a bad direction that is very unnecessary. Honestly, I feel like he does the things he does and goes certain pathways because he is bored, and it is making a lot of things worse for U.S. citizens.”
“Obviously, I think it’s really horrible and warmongering, but I think that’s something a lot of Americans fail to realize, which is that this isn’t really unique. The United States has always been antagonistic toward countries like Latin America and Iran. And sure, Trump may be more explicit or vulgar about his intentions or ways of going about things, but I think something like this was in many ways inevitable, and I feel like we should stop associating all these bad things with Trump and start associating them, just in general, with how American foreign policy has been working for the past 70 years or so.”
“My general thoughts on the current administration’s foreign policy are that they are creating an environment and a culture of hostility and division. I believe that the administration’s interests are geared toward money and how to capitalize on the division and the fear that they’re creating. And I think for folks who are seeing this happen in real time, it’s up to us to create the vision of hope that we want to see in the world, and I think that involves us saying no to the regime of American capitalism and the empire that has for generations created this inequity within our society. And so I think I see inspiration from our young folks out here on social media and in person, creating those pockets of hope and resistance that we so desperately need in 2026 America, right?”
