PERSPECTIVE:
ARE WE LOOK AT THE WRONG THING IN THE WRONG PLACE?
@maddow
always says watch what they do, not what they say.
It's notable that with Esper's firing, Trump is moving FAST to place policy and intelligence people in at DoD. 1/
ARE WE LOOK AT THE WRONG THING IN THE WRONG PLACE?
@maddow
always says watch what they do, not what they say.
It's notable that with Esper's firing, Trump is moving FAST to place policy and intelligence people in at DoD. 1/
Why?
While it's both scary and important to be mindful of any attempt to use the military to derail the election results and transitions, you don't really need policy people for that. So what else would Trump need to move policy people into place at the last second? 2/
While it's both scary and important to be mindful of any attempt to use the military to derail the election results and transitions, you don't really need policy people for that. So what else would Trump need to move policy people into place at the last second? 2/
Trump's biggest deliverable for Putin is breaking up NATO. Outside of putting troops on the streets, that is the single biggest and most destructive action that he could take. To do that he would require at least a semblance of policy to justify the change no matter how thin. 3/
Trump knows he has lost. So is he election fight a distraction? Aside from destabilizing democracy for the sake of stealing the election with an attempted coup, derailing NATO is the only other thing that immediately makes sense. 4/
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