Yes, naïve to the point of

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 12 Jun 2017 22:29:25 +0000

In reply to Thanks for this. My immediate

Yes, naïve to the point of malfeasance.

Thanks for this. My immediate

artappraiser — Mon, 12 Jun 2017 17:40:27 +0000

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Thanks for this. My immediate simplistic reaction, though, is this: I wonder if whatever comes after Trump is going to be wanting to purse "U.S.A. #1" thinking. As that is what it would take to get support for a new "Cold War:, as this time there would be no ideology vs. ideology to play with, just "who's the king of the world?"

Here's some more @ Global Politico, throwing it in here rather than a new post, on NATO et. al.:

The Shove Heard Round the World

How Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell and a Russian-backed coup attempt got tiny Montenegro into NATO.

By Susan B. Glasser, June 12, 2017

[....] Because the president of the United States had in fact blundered into the most symbolic target possible: The leader of a tiny Balkan country that had chosen, at significant risk to itself, to join the NATO alliance—even as Trump became the first American leader since World War II to publicly question the alliance’s mission, future relevance and even its core principle of collective defense. Trump may not have meant it, but with one push he inadvertently highlighted not only his own ambivalence about the alliance but the tribulations of many countries in Eastern Europe that, like Montenegro, believe they are increasingly in the cross hairs of Russia [....]

[....] “We saw a case study play out in Montenegro of what happens when America is ambivalent, and how nefarious forces—in this case, the Russians—looked at how they could take advantage of that,” argues Damon Wilson, a former Bush National Security Council aide who has closely worked on Balkan issues ever since [....]

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Yes, naïve to the point of

Thanks for this. My immediate