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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It was public opinion polling that caused Parliament and Congress to give up on a war in Syria that had massive elite support.
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The reason why critique of BHO on Syria has been unsparing is cause of elites. Conversely, Trump got lauded by elites for launching strikes.
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In closed door meetings, Obama had sold most of elite opinion-makers on the Syrian intervention. They felt his u-turn as betrayal.
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I don't think it takes much effort to convince American elites to launch Middle Eastern war.
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