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You're confusing tactics for strategy (as is the media, which is entirely necessary for the strategy to work). I could point you at the policy papers, but if you think the US can upend 70 years of foreign policy in the blink of an eye and without a fight, you can believe anything.


> You're confusing tactics for strategy

No, you're confusing wishful thinking fantasy justifications with concrete reality of actions and material effects.

> if you think the US can upend 70 years of foreign policy in the blink of an eye and without a fight, you can believe anything.

If you think it can't do that at the whim of the President (with or without a fight, since no opponent can win that fight), especially after a massive purge of the military leadership, you have an even more exaggerated fantasy view of the power of the "deep state" than even the paranoid fantasies -- that those presenting them don't even believe -- used as a pretext for the purge.

Yes, radical breaks in policy are possible, and the Trump Administration has been doing them in virtually every domain.


Wake me up when the Supreme Allied Commander Europe is no longer an American general. Until then, nothing has fundamentally changed.




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