U.S. Losing ‘Strategic Communications’ Contest With Global Rivals | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC

Robert Gates, former defense secretary for President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama, talks with Rachel Maddow about the erosion of the ability of the United States to present its principles and ideals on the world stage. Aired on 6/16/2020.
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U.S. Losing 'Strategic Communications' Contest With Global Rivals | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC

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  1. Currently we don’t have a president. What he have is a traitor and a career criminal masquerading as a president.

    1. @William Speaking of China, how did Ivanka get all those Chinese trademarks? Those are very hard to come by.

    2. @Bud Fudlacker It’s not just the FBI and CIA who caught Trump and his team of treasonous crooks selling out our democracy to Russia. It’s nearly every other intelligence agency in the free world. SEVEN! foreign intelligence services from around the world caught Russian spies in the act of meeting with Trump’s campaign team: UK, Germany, France, Netherlands, Estonia, Australia, Poland. 

      Donnie hates being caught.

  2. brilliantly said, ty sec gates and dr maddow. i hadn’t heard about this! putin must be happy…

    1. @Aj Meyers – Thanks for the link! I’ll go read it now. 👍 (edit: smh, more disgusting actions from the WH).

    2. Bat Boy : “Make America Divided Again.” That is your government’s ideology, it’s belief system, it’s goal, it’s source of power, it’s message to America and the world, and most of all, that is their METHOD. We SEE them, doing this to us, on every issue, every day, especially on issues that SHOULDN’T BE DIVISIVE, like a pandemic! But, Donny lost points to Biden when we all faced Covid together, so that could not be allowed. A, “United,” States of America is the one thing that can restore the Republic

  3. America has lost her leadership position long ago! She’s all barks and no bite now! Remember, no one tree 🌲 can make a forest! When integrity goes, it’s a downwards spiral!!

    1. Eddie S: That last sentence made no sense, son? Is your Googolska Translateski turned on? 😉

    2. @Eddie Sanchez Switzerland Eddie. It’s always been free. It always remains neutral in wars, never taking a side and it’s trusted more than any other country on the planet allowing the world’s wealth to be stored there without worry. That’s about the only country that doesn’t offend anyone though.

    3. @Ash Roskell Being the most powerful economy in the world , America never lost anything of value as a country so the slogan MAGA was only meant to appeal to the frustrated and insecure people left behind in the country’s progress. In the minds of some, it included the unfair advantages that were rightly shed in establishing the core values of the American Constitution. In others the equal treatment and respect always denied them to this very day despite the Constitution.

  4. But on the upside, we are leading the world in being the butt of jokes, magic marker science, and moronic bloviation

    1. @Polly Ticks Corn Pop, hairy legs, you know the thing? I GOT ARRESTED WITH NELSON MANDELA! Vote for me or you ain’t black! Obama was the first clean intelligent black man! All Dementia Joe!

  5. Plus we now have state TV (Fox News) to tell everyone how awful 70% of the country is (non-republican)

    1. Eddie : No son. You get paid, which is different. If you do it for free, you’re ill. You don’t OFFER, “challenges.” Just insults, and crappy attempts at, “sarcasm,” which PROVES that is a LIE. QED (👈look that up) Try again, kid 🙂

    2. @Eddie Sanchez The only challenge tends to be what tin foil hat wearing lunatic you’re quoting.

  6. I told my psychologist once that I was a pessimist. I told him, “Someday when that giant rock falls out of the sky, I know I’m gonna be the only one left. It’ll be just me and the dog!” He then proceeded to blow my mind. He said, “That means you’re an optimist.”😮
    Destroyed my whole self image… dammit man!😉

    1. Ganiscol : “Make America Divided Again,” is Trump’s story. What you described there was just one step in that process. But MADA is his METHOD. It’s his and the GOP’s ideology, source of their power and their method 👍

  7. Trump has no policies. He only pulls down, destroys or leaves (as in treaties or organisations). He stands for nothing except for photo ops for himself

  8. Not only does the US not have a foreign propaganda operation, we do not appear to have any diplomatic power at all. Even if we did have a foreign messaging operation conservatives would put it under military command and the content generated would be terrible.

  9. The United States vacates the stage, China is more than happy to fill the gap.
    Great job, Bonespur.

    1. @Bud Fudlacker Robert Vaughn was a great actor who appeared in many excellent films. His proudest achievement was to have stood up and be counted in his opposition to America’s assault on Vietnam. Bravo to him. An American avoiding involvement in attacking Vietnam should be admired like a German avoiding serving in the 1939 attack on Poland.

    2. @Bud Fudlacker So you think serving in a war that ‘murika lost is a good thing???
      You must be a rebel.

  10. America ids dying. Everything else is just talk. If you haven’t go out yet it may be too late.

  11. What rubbish! We have the best world media assets. We have been winning all the narratives even fabricating stories to discredit others.

    1. @Titans North – Absolutely, Americans have been able to count on Trump for almost 5 solid years of fake news now. He has alienated more people than COVID-19 has infected.

  12. Judging by the way Donald descended that West-Point ramp, the voyage down may take a while, but he will get America there.

    1. I think the President needs an escalator to transport him to his underground lair. Get us there quicker.

  13. Ever since Mr. Trump said that he is the law and order president, everyone forgot that he is a criminal.

  14. Uh, sorry, folks. You are *vastly underestimating how low you’ve fallen,* in exactly the same way you’ve been _ridiculously_ making wild claims about “greatness”. How’s about you wait for *_other_* people to praise you before strutting around the stage all day, naked to the world and in shame.

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