Trump Stands His Ground on Putin | Patrick J. Buchanan - Official Website
By cheering Brexit, dissing the EU, suggesting NATO is obsolete, departing Syria, trying to get on with Putin, Trump is threatening the entire U.S. foreign policy establishment with what it fears most — irrelevance.
For if there is no war on, no war imminent, and no war wanted, what does a War Party do?
Source: Trump Stands His Ground on Putin | Patrick J. Buchanan - Official Website
Why, it tries to create one, of course!
(Actually, I am becoming increasingly convinced that there is indeed a war on, an undeclared war for socio-political dominance here in the U.S. – and more broadly, the West – and that the enemy is among us. But I digress...)
In any case, Pat Buchanan makes sense and says worthwhile things far more often than not, and this is an excellent example (using print-friendly version b/c the formatting on the main website leaves something to be desired). As he aptly notes,
"The worst-case scenario would be that the establishment actually believes the nonsense it is spouting. But that is hard to credit. Like the boy who cried 'Wolf!' the establishment has cried 'Fascist!' too many times to be taken seriously.
"A month ago, the never-Trumpers were comparing the separation of immigrant kids from detained adults, who brought them to the U.S. illegally, to FDR’s concentration camps for Japanese-Americans. [N.B.: they conveniently forget or ignore that this was done under a Democratic President, namely FDR: one of the most popular and famously progressive ones in history.]
"Some commentators equated the separations to what the Nazis did at Auschwitz.
"If the establishment truly believed this nonsense, it would be an unacceptable security risk to let them near the levers of power ever again."
I cannot disagree!
Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest this essay. It's spot-on.
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