Ihonestly don’t think I’ve seen anything so hysterical, so unhinged, and so unbecoming of those in power than the reaction of the transatlantic foreign policy blob to the Trump White House National Security Strategy (NSS). Merely announcing the idea that NATO will not continue to expand to more countries until the heat death of the universe has caused babyish wails of abandonment. You would think that the world woke up one day to discover every foreign American base mothballed overnight, every American troop and bullet withdrawn behind the Mississippi River, and the entire U.S. Navy redeployed to Lake Superior.
Even those who claim it to be a dead letter are seething at the idea that anybody was allowed to have a job in the foreign policy field who could possibly have a critique of the last 25 years of American foreign policy, or could possibly have been chastened by its failures, or could come to conclude that there has been overextension. The idea that there are modest consequences to misadventure is foreign to them.
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