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Donald Trump is a neo-imperialist knave and a geostrategic moron. From MSNBC's article, "Graham and Fox News Expert Showed Trump a Map to Change his Mind About Syria Withdrawal":
"In the first two years of the administration, current and former officials said Trump so frequently threatened to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq and even the Korean Peninsula that some of his advisers developed a system for talking him down from taking such steps. The effort included showing him visual materials like maps to walk through the reasons why an abrupt withdrawal would be detrimental to U.S. interests ...
For Syria, the exercises focused on the oil and how it would fall into Iran's hands if the U.S. withdrew ... On Afghanistan, the presentation ... included a map of the country's rare earth minerals, largely used in electronic devices ...
The goal was to frame the argument in economic terms that Trump was more likely to respond than a purely military strategy ..."
Sigh ...
- Mark
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