the_dunk_tank
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There is no way he actually does this. The national security state would never tolerate any serious attempt at dismantling the foreign policy doctrines that are their officially stated reason for being.
what would it even mean? NATO is the US. if the US leaves, NATO goes with it.
it's like threatening to leave your own nose behind.
He might actually do it because nato officials are also attacking him now. His ego is way too big. He'll Atleast try to do it before he gets JFKed
It would be funny if Biden dies during the debate, then Trump gets JFK'd
It’s Her Turn
Why would they go that far though? They have to have blackmail on him for something that he cares enough to not want released. I always imagine these people, being the institutionalists they are, would go for subtle approaches like blackmail when it comes to getting what they want.
They didn’t let him do it during the first term, they won’t during the second.
That's why I'm confident they won't let him try to do it a second time. I imagine they have to have gotten better at managing his behavior to get the outcomes they want.
https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2020/11/outgoing-syria-envoy-admits-hiding-us-troop-numbers-praises-trumps-mideast-record/170012/
Their method of managing his behavior was simply lying to him lmao
That would have to be the first layer, lying by legal word play or omission. There must have been a lot of insubordination from the lifetime bureaucrats during his last tenure to do that. Blackmail could be the next layer, which I would imagine would stop anything else they couldn't get by just lying to him.
And you only really need to pull out stuff beyond lying for issues he's really fixated on, which varies from little to nothing, at least abroad.
Yep. I think it's especially useful for them to have a populist politician that can put his seal of approval on any of their legacy policy proposals.