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 …
7 Afghanistan: Trump retorted angrily generals were “the architects of this mess” & were “making it worse” by asking him to add more troops to “something I don’t believe in.” Trump folded arms & declared, “I want to get out. And you’re telling me the answer is to get deeper in.”
