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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 May 2017
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      3. raq War is the Everest of contemporary history. We live in its shadows. It raised fundamental questions about America as global power

      6 replies 51 retweets 208 likes
    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 May 2017
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      4. It's symptomatic of how entrenched Western alliance is after Iraq, Europeans still wanted to give USA another chance. Obama was reset.

      4 replies 27 retweets 139 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 May 2017
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      5. Trump is Bush squared. Bush could be forgiven as someone with a mistaken ideology. Trump is different. He's actively malicious.

      8 replies 65 retweets 240 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 May 2017
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      5. From the point of view of a Merkel or Macron Trump is someone actively hostile to their national agendas: he's anti-EU, NATO ambivalent

      4 replies 33 retweets 139 likes
    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 May 2017
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      6. By failing to affirm Article Five, support for Brexit & wink-wink support for figures like Le Pen, Trump cuts to heart of Europe

      3 replies 31 retweets 127 likes
    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 May 2017
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      7. Problem is not just Trump but fact that almost entire GOP is either enabling or supporting Trump.

      6 replies 59 retweets 201 likes
    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 May 2017
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      8. NATO can only be stable if it has broad bipartisan support in USA. NATO countries now know that it doesn't, so they have to move on

      5 replies 41 retweets 118 likes
    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 May 2017
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      9. Logic of situation is for reconfigured NATO, with Germany & France as heads, USA either out or playing a minor role.

      9 replies 23 retweets 93 likes
    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 May 2017
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      10. Merkel: “We Europeans must really take our destiny into our own hands.” Yep. Alternative is putting your fate in Trump's hand

      4 replies 24 retweets 107 likes
    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 May 2017
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      11. If you were a European, would you put your life in the hands of a nation that elected Trump & might have more Trump's in the future?

      14 replies 63 retweets 182 likes
      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 30 May 2017

      12. Further thoughts on the emerging rift here:https://newrepublic.com/article/142938/trumps-european-trip-watershed-moment …

      9:24 AM - 30 May 2017
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        1. Andy W Taylor‏ @SooGuy68 30 May 2017
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          Sound like it will have huge implications for Canada too.

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        1. R. S. S.‏ @_R_S_S_ 30 May 2017
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          R. S. S. Retweeted Jeet Heer

          Didn't you just tweet that NATO is a risk for Europeans with or without Trump?https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/869572371698466816 …

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          Jeet HeerVerified account @HeerJeet
          The problem with accusing Europeans of being "NATO free riders" is they run real risks by aligning with USA, of both nuclear war & terrorism
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        1. Bill‏ @BPn312 30 May 2017
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          also 2000 and 2016 elections show the US's provincial party has structural adv. to win presidency. Makes EU reliance on US harder

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        1. Dean Buckley‏ @deanfbuckley 30 May 2017
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          Nevertheless, he pursued the argument further here:

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        2. Sah Luss‏ @salasks 30 May 2017
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          There will be 3 superpowers by end of Trump's term: EU, China, US. We were headed that way anyway, he's just making it more clear

          2 replies 5 retweets 8 likes
        3. Shannapocrypha‏ @shannapocrypha 30 May 2017
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          I assume Russia's out of the running due to long-term demographic issues and its petrostate economy?

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        1. It’s Dr. Brown To You, Kiddo.‏ @DocJaniceL 30 May 2017
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Wrenching and seismic in scope. Idea tht GOP leaders of country abet claptrap is horrific! 60% of country ardently disavows, but powerless!

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        1. Jake + the derg  🎨 ⚖️ 💛 🐝‏ @JakeReif 30 May 2017
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          But: they know that the GOP won by breaking the system, no? Remove Trump, elect Dems, fix institutions and begin to rebuild trust?

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        1. Kostas Karkagiannis‏ @KKarkagiannis 30 May 2017
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          Points 7&8 very important, but disagree with 9. Seems too far fetched. Good thread.

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        1. tom hebert‏ @tominwindsor 30 May 2017
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          There is a certain pointed irony to Merkel saying that at a Bavarian beer hall rally. That ought to send shivers down some spines.

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