3. raq War is the Everest of contemporary history. We live in its shadows. It raised fundamental questions about America as global power
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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7. Problem is not just Trump but fact that almost entire GOP is either enabling or supporting Trump.
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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
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Can NATO be stable if almost none of its European member countries' populations actually support Article 5?: http://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/?fa=60389 …
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Wars are launched by elites, not by public opinion polls.
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Wasn't one of the hooks for this tweetstorm the poll showing weak Republican-voter support for NATO?
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I think that polling # less significant than fact GOP elite in congress & Senate (see Corker) going along with Trump.
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The theory of the GOP elite seems to be that you let Trump vent and then make sure nothing changes in policy.
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Which may be a way to march slightly more slowly to NATO dissolution. But Merkel isn't kicking US troops out of Germany just yet.
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