There's a small subset of anti-war types who indulge in the fantasy that Trump is an anti-interventionist president. Thing is, even if he makes anti-interventionist gestures & mutterings, he lacks the competence to implement them as policy.https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1081924764405583882 …
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I think there's a conflation of anti-interventionism & anti-imperialism from some of these types where opposing intervention is inherently anti-imperialist & anti-imperialism is mostly achieved by non-intervention. But Trump's non-interventionism is a product of his unilateralism
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He would have no problem exercising American military power in a situation that, hypothetically speaking, helped him financially if given the opportunity. That being said, his incompetence creates the need for a serious discussion of deimperialization and demilitarization.
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How is it possible that anyone, after all this time, could think Trump is anti- or pro-intervention or anything coherent? He doesn't have policies, he doesn't have ideology. All he has is self-interest, greed, ego, and childish temper tantrums.
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Surley you're not suggesting opening up to Iran and Syria!
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Legit Argument. I'm reminded of Norman Cantor's critique, in I think The American Century, of C. Wright Mills' The Power Elite. Where Cantor noted that one of the main problems of the book was that Mills is surprised that there is a Power Elite.
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Likewise, of course, for all their talk about the Deep State, Trump & his followers seem honestly surprised that there IS a Deep State. 2/2
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And even if he didn't face that opposition, he'd make an utter mess of the situation on the ground as he left. I want less slaughter, not more!
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Less slaughter has to start with US doing less of it.
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He wants to open US to Russia, Chiba, NKorea and Saudi Arabia. Oops...and Brazil. The Hungarian dictator will soon be praised. Authoritarians are his gang.
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And "progressive" pundits undermining Trump's attempts at non-intervention helps how? Citing Obama and Nixon (?!) as the guys who overcame the MIC to implement REAL non-intervention principles doesn't help your case either.
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