1. Over the last decade (at least) I've condemned Donald Trump in the strongest possible terms in countless words as a shitty human being & political figure. So I feel like I have licence to point out that not everything he does is bad.https://twitter.com/NYTimesAtWar/status/1018653857101025280 …
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5. Anyways, it should be perfectly possible to oppose Trump in general & also support normalizing relations with North Korea, avoiding ground troops in Syria & negotiating an end to Afghan occupation.
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6. One caveat to all this is that even in areas where Trump's policies are broadly correct (say, normalizing relations with North Korea), the way he enacts those policies (ineptly, with many lies) is almost certain to lead to failure & possibly disaster.
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Not really true. For example, Trump is keeping troops in Saudi Arabia rather than tell Saudi Arabia to defend itself because the kingdom of Saudi Arabia is giving him and his family a lot of money. Trump's foreign policy largely determined by how much money he can make off of it
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He also just wants on some issues, at some level, to take an (any) opposing view to the existing prevailing wisdom, just to show how clever he is. Where US Middle East policy is concerned, I could be persuaded to take a gambler’s optimism about that approach.
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