Foreign Policy

L. Francis Cissna, director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, told staff in an email March 12, 2019 that the agency hopes to close all of its overseas offices. 

The Trump administration is preparing to shutter all international offices of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, a move that could slow the processing of family visa applications, foreign adoptions and citizenship petitions from members of the military stationed abroad....  the agency would move to close its international field offices in coming months....

Trump took a disgusting action last Friday by pulling the US out of The United Nationas Arms Trade Treaty. This document is followed by nearly 100 nations to regulate the trade of weapons across sovereign borders.

Trump effectively "unsigned" an international arms sales agreement Friday, moving to withdraw the U.S. from the United Nations' Arms Trade Treaty. The agreement sets global standards for regulating transfers of conventional arms, from rifles to tanks and airplanes.

Another post where we lament that Trump told us 'only the best' would be in his administration.  In fact, it's the opposite and some of the absolutely worst people, now including the nominee to the United Nations who bought her way into consideration.

Evil doesn't rest.  While our blue wave led to a Democratic House majority that immediateld held Oversight Hearings on the Trump Family Separations, it's vital to realize this is still happening.  Children, babies, being ripped away from parents. 

Eight months after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to stop separating parents and children at the US-Mexico border, families are still being separated.  Newly released government data shows nearly 250 parents have been separated from their children since June 26.

The headline of this post seems like clickbait but the truth can't be that bad.  This is the part where you learn the facts ARE THAT BAD.

Two teams of federal officials assembled to fight foreign election interference are being dramatically downsized, according to three current and former Department of Homeland Security officials.

Here is another example of a Republican being appointed to lead an organization or department who entirely hates its purpose and existence.  The best way to gain power under Trump and Republicans as they seek to dismantle government-related entities that help ensure a functional Planet Earth is to spend your career hating said entities.

Matt Whitaker is a disgrace to our JUSTICE Department.  He is a disrespectful person who does not believe in the rule of law, has committed fraud himself, and illegally works for Trump rather than on behalf of the American people.  We have no idea how he went from a nobody criminal stealing money from old women to acting Attorney General.  What a disaster.

Killing the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty was a gift to Russia.  The INF Treaty was at the heart of arms control that helped lead to the end of the Cold War. The death of the treaty could easily harm rather than bolster U.S. and allied security.

Only the best right?  Only the best.  That's who Trump said he'd surround himself with.  Instead, it's literally THEE worst, every time.

Elliott Abrams, a controversial neoconservative figure who was entangled in the Iran-Contra affair, has been named as a Trump administration special envoy overseeing policy toward Venezuela....

Abrams, who served in the Reagan and George W. Bush administrations, is a well-known and somewhat controversial figure in U.S. foreign policy circles.

We at Smart Dissent and all of you have known every step of the way that Trump's trade wars were a significant drain on our people and the GOP tax scam was benefitting only corporations, not us.  When we started to do more research on the impacts to write this post, we found something shocking: even the ultra right wing Heritage Foundation has numerous posts crushing Trump for his trade war.  Now that's saying something!

Here's the only time we're ever going to quote those clowns on Smart Dissent: