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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]                Naturally, some of these evident failures were substantially worse than others. Of special concern today mu...

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 you're an ally of the united states, this sentds the message essentially you are on your own. no matter what the alliance commitments or treaty commit mens, you are increasingly on your own no m...

With worried putin is in the lead. >> according to some experts he's 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 putin's ultimate goal? >> what they're 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 explosion and fallout shrouded in secrecy by moscow is one of putin's weapons programs designed to hold t...

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 should examine ourselves what in our view are our needs to defend our borders our nation our people our a...

And i'll 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, i'm shouting. so i want top say i thi say i t totally unpresidential for our president to be communicating this way. we don't have the international community united behind us anymore with respect to iran. when the president tweets escalatory rhetoric, threatening war, it makes us all less secure. we have created tensio...