How would you run your country's foreign policy?

[Vistulange]

Unfortunately, our foreign policy is tied to everything. I'm in Turkey, by the way, but...

...stop recieving more Syrian refugees. Stop supporting ISIS, and support the Iraqi government. Stop trying to topple Assad by arming the militant Islamist groups - actually, just drop the entire neo-Ottoman act. Democratize and move towards the EU.

[Union Of Canadorian Socialists Republic]

Become a nation of armed neutrality... Swiss style.

[Gezi Park]

Turkey:

-Primary focus put on EU membership, all chapters will be closed with accurate reforms

-Relations with Assad's Syria restored, FSA declared a terrorist organization along with all other rebels in Syria

-Allow the US to use your bases against ISIS, but don't get involved in yourself because what the ISIS is currently fighting (PKK) is also my enemy and I don't want to send in my own people to save their asses, let them finish it off if they want but this is not 'my war', simply don't give a shit

-Open embassy in DPRK and form decent economic and diplomatic relations

-Much closer relations with Japan and South Korea

-An Uralic-Altaic Cooperation Organization should be founded

-Joint national football league with Greece

[Calimera II]

Turkey:
-Open embassy in DPRK and form decent economic and diplomatic relations

Why would you actually want this?

[Gezi Park]

Turkey:
-Open embassy in DPRK and form decent economic and diplomatic relations

Why would you actually want this?

Why not? we could also play a role in helping the DPRK open up to the world. I don't see them as "ebul communiztz", might be oppressive as hell but I find the Juche aesthetic very cool. I would visit the DPRK as the head of the government and tell nice things about its former leaders, the country, buildings, pay my respects to the Kim il-Sung's mausoleum, then have a talk with Kim Jong-Un and make suggestions to make more progressive reforms about his country as a close friend.

[Herargon]

- The Netherlands:

- Say to Geert Wilders face that he may say whatever he wants, but that hate speech is not tolerated.

- Say to all those extremists -- not just Muslims, but all extremists -- that they can expect to stay friendly towards us, or they will face consequences that won't make them more extremist but certainly will punish them.

- Strive for a reunification with Flanders, with Bruxelles by parliamentary vote (Wallonia is an option, but they should be given the chance to vote) and Luxembourg - but only if they really wish to do so.

- Connect all nature parks to each other

- Limit foreign aid to emergency help or make it 3/4 of our current budget, maybe lower if a 51% majority vote of the country's population agrees upon

- Referendums may become more common and binding

- EU: No USE, the most integrated I would like is a confederacy of States and not a federation as it is currently.

- Military will be modernized and restored; meeting NAVO norms is important

- Closer ties with former colonies, but we don't wish an union with them since they are free to vote and decide for themselves.
And we won't make them TOO dependant to us again; a maximum of 30% of their trade, maybe more if they agree with a majority in their parliament.

- Pressure Israel to acknowledge Palestina and retreat its troops out of the West Bank, pressure Palestine to implement secular laws and be reformed gradually to a secular democracy, with a parliamentary system, and pressure both countries to have a non-agressy pact or even alliance.

- Contaminate the Russians but let them have near-carte blanche in Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kirgizia and Tajikstan, in trade for allowing the Ukraineans to get the Crimea back (and let it stay that way), since their referendum was illegitimate.

- Black Peter and Saint Nicholas must stay, no matter what

- Return free college and let free healthcare and the AOW (pensions) stay. These all may reform, but the first sentence has to be the case.
On other cases, I will allow the society to modernize into a ''participation society''.

- People with severe and certainly inheritable diseases or syndroms may be sterilized if they want it, or if their parents/grandparents want it if the people who are affected by it can't be deemed capable in the sense that they can talk and/or understand the world around them, how big or small it is.

[Herargon]

Why would you actually want this?

Why not? we could also play a role in helping the DPRK open up to the world. I don't see them as "ebul communiztz", might be oppressive as hell but I find the Juche aesthetic very cool. I would visit the DPRK as the head of the government and tell nice things about its former leaders, the country, buildings, pay my respects to the Kim il-Sung's mausoleum, then have a talk with Kim Jong-Un and suggest him some reforms to make more progressive reforms about his country as a close friend.

This. It is called diplomacy.

However I find it hard to talk with leaders that killed millions of people, they will think the same of us too since we Western powers killed millions of lives in Africa and Asia.

[Dejanic]

Much closer integration with the EU, move further away from the USA whilst staying on friendly terms, recognise Palestine, support Assad against the FSA Islamists, send aid to the Kurds/Iraqi government, give NI back to Ireland.

Country=UK

[Herargon]

Much closer integration with the EU, move further away from the USA whilst staying on friendly terms, recognise Palestine, support Assad against the FSA Islamists, send aid to the Kurds/Iraqi government, give NI back to Ireland.

Country=UK

B-but ... Britannia rules the waves?

[Gezi Park]

Why not? we could also play a role in helping the DPRK open up to the world. I don't see them as "ebul communiztz", might be oppressive as hell but I find the Juche aesthetic very cool. I would visit the DPRK as the head of the government and tell nice things about its former leaders, the country, buildings, pay my respects to the Kim il-Sung's mausoleum, then have a talk with Kim Jong-Un and suggest him some reforms to make more progressive reforms about his country as a close friend.

This. It is called diplomacy.

However I find it hard to talk with leaders that killed millions of people, they will think the same of us too since we Western powers killed millions of lives in Africa and Asia.

I don't think Kim Jong-un killed much people, except some hundreds of local executions. If you refer to its past leaders that was a civil war and South Korea has as much bloody history that they committed ethnic cleansing towards hundreds of thousands of dissident Koreans. It's nonsense to bring up the past, I would try to keep equally decent relations with both the North and South and try to act as a peacemaker between them.

[Herargon]

This. It is called diplomacy.

However I find it hard to talk with leaders that killed millions of people, they will think the same of us too since we Western powers killed millions of lives in Africa and Asia.

I don't think Kim Jong-un killed much people, except some hundreds of local executions. If you refer to its past leaders that was a civil war and South Korea has as much bloody history that they committed ethnic cleansing towards hundreds of thousands of dissident Koreans. It's nonsense to bring up the past, I would try to keep equally decent relations with both the North and South and try to act as a peacemaker between them.

Sort of as the US was before and during WW1 until 1917 to the European great powers?

[Newsaintsland]

As an American I would current military spending by 75 percent. Move 25 percent of that to NASS and scientific exploration. The rest would go to a yearly "bonus" check for all Americans no matter their income status. I would then start opening ftee trade to all nations and end foreign aide to all nations. Start slashing the income tax until the irs can be done away with. End subsidizing of corporations and ban lobbyists.

[Dejanic]

Much closer integration with the EU, move further away from the USA whilst staying on friendly terms, recognise Palestine, support Assad against the FSA Islamists, send aid to the Kurds/Iraqi government, give NI back to Ireland.

Country=UK

B-but ... Britannia rules the waves?

K, sorry, let me rewrite all that.

Leave the EU and bomb Brussels, become a territory of the USA in hopes of becoming the 51st state, bomb the Gaza strip and re-recognise Israel again for the sake of it, support the FSA terrorists in their quest for a Sharia Syria, bomb the Kurds, invade Ireland and annex the poor fiscally stricken state for it's own good, bomb France, invade Vietnam/North Korea/Denmark/New York and the entire continent of Africa.

[Gezi Park]

I don't think Kim Jong-un killed much people, except some hundreds of local executions. If you refer to its past leaders that was a civil war and South Korea has as much bloody history that they committed ethnic cleansing towards hundreds of thousands of dissident Koreans. It's nonsense to bring up the past, I would try to keep equally decent relations with both the North and South and try to act as a peacemaker between them.

Sort of as the US was before and during WW1 until 1917 to the European great powers?

I don't think the US was really neutral towards the Central Powers though.

[Selveti]

I would continue Venezuela's close ties with Cuba and Bolivia and increase our cooperation with Peru, Ecuador, Brasil, Nicaragua, Mexico, and Argentina. I would focus extensively on the long-term goal of Patria Grande, and I would increase support for the FARC-EP in Colombia.

[Herargon]

B-but ... Britannia rules the waves?

K, sorry, let me rewrite all that.

Leave the EU and bomb Brussels, become a territory of the USA in hopes of becoming the 51st state, bomb the Gaza strip and re-recognise Israel again for the sake of it, support the FSA terrorists in their quest for a Sharia Syria, bomb the Kurds, invade Ireland and annex the poor fiscally stricken state for it's own good, bomb France, invade Vietnam/North Korea/Denmark/New York and the entire continent of Africa.

*laughs at the - seriously! - good joke, and then sighs as the first things maybe could be very realistic*

[Vestr-Norig]

I would take an active stance supporting separatists in several regions around the world, such as Catalonia, Scotland, Wales, Padania, Kurdistan, Tibet and Azawad, and condemning those nations that refuses the people to vote for their independence. At the same time, I would demand of Demnark to let the people of the Faroe Islands vote towards either staying Danish, being laid under Norwegian control, or becoming a fully sovreign nation.

I would have Norway leave the Schengen-agreement and EFTA, and further restrict the influence of foreign cooporations on the economy of Norway. I would pull Norway out of countries such as Afghanistan, have Norway leave NATO, and work to find common ground with countries such as Finland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Ireland and Scotland regarding defencive and financial agreements.

[Calimera II]

Why would you actually want this?

Why not? we could also play a role in helping the DPRK open up to the world.

That's not what the regime wants.

I don't see them as "ebul communiztz",

It is a shithole with concentration camps.

might be oppressive as hell but I find the Juche aesthetic very cool.

And that's the worst reason to actually start diplomatic relations.

I would visit the DPRK as the head of the government and tell nice things about its former leaders,

''Nice concentration camps''

buildings,

''Nice slums''

pay my respects to the Kim il-Sung's mausoleum,

''Thank you for being a scumbag.''

then have a talk with Kim Jong-Un and make suggestions to make more progressive reforms about his country as a close friend.

And that will never happen.

[Calimera II]

I would continue Venezuela's close ties with Cuba

Well, I wouldn't.

and Bolivia and increase our cooperation with Peru, Ecuador, Brasil, Nicaragua, Mexico, and Argentina. I would focus extensively on the long-term goal of Patria Grande,

Yessss! La Patria Grande is the future of South America.

[Raeyzeus]

I believe in Isolationism so I would stop putting sanctions on Russia, look towards the US for renewable energy, leave NATO and close the embassies in other countries. Then withdraw all troops from the Middle East, close immigration, and only keep our lines with China open until I was no longer dependant on them.

[Calimera II]

Turkey:
-Joint national football league with Greece

Ohhhhh, that will be fun.

[Herargon]

I believe in Isolationism so I would stop putting sanctions on Russia, look towards the US for renewable energy, leave NATO and close the embassies in other countries. Then withdraw all troops from the Middle East, close immigration, and only keep our lines with China open until I was no longer dependant on them.

You forgot to mention your country.

Also.. sorry that this sounds rather egocentrist, but what do you guys think about the ideas about my country I posted?
I'm really curious for anyone's opinion on anything, so that's why I've asked it.

[Southern Babylonia]

As a Canadian, I'd start off by stopping the F-35 shit and putting that money somewhere useful. I'd then stop sending oil to the US, but that's a whole other rant. Otherwise, I'll admit that although it's hardly high praise, Harper's foreign policy is possibly the least of my problems with him. I'd agree with limited interventionism - arming opposition groups, allowing citizens to go and fight as individuals or groups (like the Dutch biker gang), etc.

[Grand Britannia]

As an American, I would pursue an economic union of North America, increase NASA spending by 25%, military spending by 10%, pursue closer relations with India and SEA, make a bigger southern border fence, end unnecessary foreign aid and invest that money in SEA, and prolly stop worrying so much about Ukraine.

[Blakullar]

Oh, where to start...

• Cut down on development aid and divert it to other projects unrelated to foreign policy.
• Hold a referendum on membership of the EU and NATO, but maintain trading partnership if the electorate vote to leave the former.
• Create a $15 billion-strong funding boost for the European Space Agency.
• Draw up plans for transport links to overseas territories (e.g. Gibraltar and Falklands).
• Officially declare neutrality in regards to the Ukraine crisis.
• Establish an Australia-style points system in regards to immigration, to deter unskilled workers.
• Refuse to sign up to TTIP. Enough said.
• End the "special relationship" between the UK and the USA.

This is but a blip in the LONG mental list I have in my mind to fix the, put bluntly, fucked-up foreign policy of this country.