IIRC @leashless has rubbed shoulders with some top level security mucks: I’m curious, what do you make of this Vinay?
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What should be of concern isn’t Trump going in to UNSC to make a securitising move - it’s the defence strategy which will be several steps ahead. DoD are long term players, and no one has a clue what they’re up to. Trump isn’t a one ‘Big Boy’ band, DoD will be supporting this.https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1037109649152069632 …
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At least he doesn’t have the popular support like Bush had when he was making his UN ‘Axis of Evil’ speeches....which was bonkers, post 9/11. No one is convinced that’s why they went in, of course, but they sure knew how to drum up popular mandate for ‘supranormal policy’.
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Last on this: there are real mismatches between security theory in academia, pop commentary, the engine of politics, and the security agencies with access to proprietary intelligence/strategy. No one - apart from tinfoil hatters - knows why US actually went into Iraq
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