Trump is following pretty closely the “Ryan Doctrine” in this op, which was conceptualized by Tom Clancy in Executive Orders and subsequent books (when Jack Ryan is President).
The Ryan Doctrine is:
If you threaten the USA, we will first neutralize the active threat, ie bomb the drug boats, the missile sites, the bio lab, whatever
Then we will capture or assassinate the leader responsible for the attack.
That’s it. Repeat until understood.
Reading that Maduro met with China the same day he was curb stomped.
We will see where things go. Again, assuming no bogged down engagements, I support a policy that prevents China from doing to South America what they did to Africa, it has been US foreign policy since James Monroe
The full quote is EVEN MORE BASED
NICK SHIRLEY: "I don't drink alcohol, I don't do drugs, I'm a virgin, I don't have sex with random girls, I don't have addictions, I don't have vices, so what are they going to get me for? I believe in God. I'm religious. I'm everything that they hate."
A Christmas Story is nostalgic to the boomers because it depicts their childhood
A Christmas Story is nostalgic to zoomers because they watched that movie during their childhood, with their boomer parents, who also found it nostalgic at the time.
If nostalgium were a mineral, A Christmas Story would be it