The premise of this tweet is that anti-Trump people somehow control American foreign policy & Trump has no agency.https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/922242283000549376 …
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Replying to @HeerJeet
No it's not. The premise is that a state's domestic political climate affects the conduct of its foreign policy, a truism of IR theory.
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Replying to @mtracey
if this is all about Russia someone should tell North Korea that we’re friends now
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Replying to @ixochitl
The perceived threat posed by Russia is explicitly named as a factor in the article cited.
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Replying to @mtracey
yeah it’s right there after they mention North Korea twice. i saw it
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Replying to @ixochitl
Who denied that North Korea is also a factor? Military always loves to cite a multitude of "global threats" to justify its overzealousness
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Replying to @mtracey
so u think that the military is putting nukes in the sky to address Russia primarily and they’ve added NK as an afterthought?
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So you think that Russia is not a factor, despite it being specifically cited as one?
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Replying to @mtracey
i think the primary reason is probably to threaten the country that the commander in chief of the armed forces has been, yaknow, threatening
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