1 Trump has complained bitterly, in public & to aides, about permanent wars Pentagon has been fighting for years across Greater Middle East & Africa, & commitments to South Korea and NATO. unprecedented struggle between a sitting president & national security state over empirehttps://twitter.com/GarethPorter/status/1047482424517709824 …
2 arguments made no impression on Trump, who saw no value in having troops abroad at time when USA itself was crumbling. “We have [spent] $7 trillion in the Middle East,” Trump said at the end of the meeting. “We can’t even muster $1 trillion for domestic infrastructure.”
