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Modern Diplomacy Pensées The Primacy of Intellect On matters of United States foreign and defense policy, it is high time to return to Reason.[1] Why a “return?” During his four years as president, Donald J. Trump created an almost seamless web of policy derelictions and corresponding failures. In this humiliating history of calculated Unreason, Trump’s strategic declensions were the result of both witting dissemblance and outright irrationality.[2]                Natural...

Larger piece. the desire to get the united states forces out of the afghanistan. again, consequences be damned, given what the taliban could do. and so the consequences of this are not simply good for iran, good far russia and syria. it sends the message worldwide, it reinforces the message that the united states is no longer reliable. we are no longer predictable. we can no longer be counted on. so if youre an ally of the united states, this sentds the message essentially you are on your own. n...

With worried putin is in the lead. >> according to some experts hes at least a year, maybe as much as two years ahead of our ability to actually deploy in the field a similar like capability. >> reporter: u.s. military intelligence believes putins ultimate goal? >> what theyre developing is a capability to deny the ability of the united states to meet its alliance commitments specifically in europe. >> reporter: the russian nuclear powered skyfall missile test which resulted in a deadly explosio...

Be about technology we equipped to handle that can we compete with china. can there be a nato role should there be a native on that these are the new questions if you as president tromso persistent call for increased defense spending helping or hurting the cause. well as far as my own country is concerned i think there is a big problem here we should of course not simply react to what is perceived as an american demand for us to spend two percent what should have been in germany is that we shoul...

And ill read a line from that tweet. suffer consequences the likes of which few throughout history have ever suffered before if they continue their threats against the united states. >> you know, wolf, my kids have always said to me, if i tweet or text them in capital letters, im shouting. so i want top say i thi say i t totally unpresidential for our president to be communicating this way. we dont have the international community united behind us anymore with respect to iran. when the president...

Was controlled? >> we saw when president trump came out swinging at that early breakfast wednesday morning and immediately started criticizing germany and other allies, much to everyones surprise. it seemed like and then it went to the end, that surprise press conference before he left brussels. he said everyone had come to agreement, there were billions and billions of dollars moved in. what we find out, my colleagues and my, carol lee and whether the u.s. was going to maintain its nato allianc...

Do something visible, something overt. it wasnt by accident that the military released this video very quickly with the press release to make it clear that we take our alliance commitments very, very seriously. >> with video. thats no accident either. >> that was no accident either. this is all very designed. and also ill note it came after the statement by secretary tillerson. this is in keeping with secretary mattiss declare that the diplomacy take the lead always. >> you are looking at this. ...

Stick with respect to affecting our alliance commitments with south korea. this whole freeze for freeze thing is not going to happen. theres no way the united states is going to stop operating with the south koreans or pull back the thaad deployment. it was really more a statement of, you know, to annoy, i think, than anything else. >> okay. admiral kirby, as always, thank you so much. >> you bet. just in, we are getting word that 44 states are now defying president trumps question for voter i...

At a boiling point. rich edson is at the state department with the very latest on secretary tillerson latest trip. >> secretary of state rex tillerson travels to asia to address an aggressive north korea, he will do it with a south korean government facing problems at home. earlier today, a south korean court removed from power president park geun-hye after a scandal. they say they have 60 days. in the meantime, the state department says they will work with the interim president, inland statemen...

At a boiling point. rich edson is at the state department with the very latest on secretary tillerson latest trip. >> secretary of state rex tillerson travels to asia to address an aggressive north korea, he will do it with a south korean government facing problems at home. earlier today, a south korean court removed from power president park geun-hye after a scandal. they say they have 60 days. in the meantime, the state department says they will work with the interim president, inland statemen...