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In response to "'Putin will be thrilled': Former NATO ambassadors say Trump just dealt 'a major blow' to the alliance" by crash davis

I don't personally think this is a major policy shift. I think it is a ill-informed, undisciplined leader not having true professionals guiding his

Posted by crash davis (aka crash davis) May 25 '17, 13:41

speeches. This really points out how much a professional class is needed in Washington and how message discipline is so important outside our borders.

The points in the Mattis article I linked below on how thinly staffed the Pentagon is nowadays also bothers the hell out of me.

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the kind of people who backed him politically, and many of the voters who did, are the kind that wanted the US OUT OF THE UN -- nm - zeitgeist May 25, 13:43 1
- yeah, but NATO has never had the unpopularity that the UN has had -- nm - crash davis May 25, 13:44

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