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If the us pulled out of all international groups and stopped all their aid to them?

What do you think would happened
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Xuan12 · 31-35, M
Without veto power in the UN, the US loses a potent tool of global policy making. If NATO continues it's role of containing Russian expansion, the principle influence brokers will be the UK and Germany, with the US losing it's seat at the head of the table there too. Withdrawing from various trade deals would pose import/export nightmares for many US businesses, and various countries are likely to take defensive measure, disinvesting themselves and their businesses from the US to the extent that they are able, and forming long term plans to transition to other markets.
Mountainlady16 · 22-25, F
But the whole world can bully is into taking refugees putting our own people at risk
Xuan12 · 31-35, M
@sassygirl15: Statistically, refugees are less dangerous than other immigrants. As a general rule of thumb, if someone on TV or radio is telling you to be afraid of something, they're probably lying.
Mountainlady16 · 22-25, F
@Xuan12: do you not pay attention to what Syrian refugees have done in turkey, Germany and france.
Xuan12 · 31-35, M
@sassygirl15: The media is half lying to you on this point. You see, the police data in Germany actually shows refugees committing crimes at the same rate as legal citizens in Germany. This is actually an increase, as the refugee crime rate actually used to be lower than the general crime rate. Probably this has happened due to simple crowding, Germany took more refugees than the system was actually ready to handle. Overcrowding and slow processing has driven a good number of them to theft and fraud, the crimes most often committed by refugees.

In the US, the case is quite different. Refugees have a lower crime rate than the general population. In fact, the states that accept the most refugees, California, Texas, and New York, which each took 4000 or more refugees in 2015, have lower violent crime rates than many states, including Arkansas, which took only 15. There is in fact, very little correlation in violent crime rate and refugee rates in the US. And if you're worried about terrorism, there's no need to be. The US refugee vetting procedure lasts for around 2 years. Since 1975, only 20 refugees in the US have been terrorists, that's one-half terrorist per year. You're far more likely to run into a Timothy McVeigh or a Dylan Roof than you are a refugee terrorist.

The US doesn't have a refugee problem. Anyone saying it does is playing political theatre.
Mountainlady16 · 22-25, F
@Xuan12: I mean actual terrorists attacks like the Paris bombongs, that Turkish wedding bombing the German Christmas mrket were all Syrian refugees. In the us Boston marathon, Chattanooga shooter, the gay nightclub in fl all done my Muslim. Some by refugees
Mountainlady16 · 22-25, F
Chattanooga shooter was a refugee. Kuwait refugee that free up here but still a refugee. They are trying to get laws passed to let them wear those stupid burkas in public. That's dangerous
Mountainlady16 · 22-25, F
Chattanooga shooter was a refugee. Kuwait refugee that grewup here but still a refugee. They are trying to get laws passed to let them wear those stupid burkas in public. That's dangerous
Xuan12 · 31-35, M
@sassygirl15: As already mentioned, refugee terrorists are vanishingly rare. Boston Marathon bombers, US citizens, families came under asylum, which is legally different. Chattanooga shooter came through regular immigration channels, not a refugee. Orlando nightclub shooter, born US citizen.
Mountainlady16 · 22-25, F
Its not just the crimes they are taking our housing, jobs, and all kinds of things. Do you realize how many homeless vets we have? How many of our children go to bed hungry every night? Money spent on these invaders should be spent on our own. U don't the other Muslim counties taken in?
Xuan12 · 31-35, M
Nobody owes you these things. You're not entitled to them by birth. For a house, you must pay rent, for a job you must get hired. It's the same for veterans, refugees, and common citizens. There are programs to help, but no enshrined right to one's material welfare.

Of about 5 million known Syrian refugees, only about 18,000 are in the US. 4.4million of them are registered in Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan.
Mountainlady16 · 22-25, F
@Xuan12: Yes but there is less jobs and housing with all these refugees here. And if Hillary had been elected we probably had millions of them here too.
Xuan12 · 31-35, M
@sassygirl15: So make jobs building houses. Trump is promising 4% GDP growth, should be no problem. Although the two main drivers of economic growth are population growth and technology. So unless he invents some amazing new technologies or increases the US fertility rate beyond it's rut at 2.06, I have to wonder how he's going to manage it without immigration.