It's like we're trapped in a time loop. We're just repeatedly playing the roles of Charles Lindbergh and Robert Taft.
It appears that we are being clobbered with the two following suppositions:
1. A supranational force is needed to preserve democratic ideals globally against despotic regimes likes Russia.
2. The lives of oppressed peoples everywhere are dependent on the existence of NATO.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...=.79d6f01150cd
So let us take an account of what is being smashed by Donald Trump. In viewing our European allies as a “foe” intent on exploitation, Trump is smashing an alliance that has encouraged peaceful relations within Europe and jointly resisted terrorism and Russian aggression. By questioning NATO’s Article 5 and the principle of collective security, he is smashing a system that has turned a continent prone to war and genocide into a flawed but functioning community of free nations. By ignoring and denying the moral power of American ideals and expressing a deeply un-American dictator envy, Trump is smashing our sense of national mission along with the hopes of oppressed people everywhere.
And for what? For a form of extreme nationalism that serves someone else’s nation? For a definition of strength that trades away the tremendous advantage of our defining ideals? This is a work of demolition without the inconvenience of new architecture. Yet among his Republican supporters, none dare call it idiocy.
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