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Extremely unlikely that we would unilaterally invade another country under President Trump. That Bush-era hawkish interventionist doctrine is pretty much dead.

Extremely unlikely that we would unilaterally invade another country under President Trump. That Bush-era hawkish interventionist doctrine is pretty much dead. The diplomacy with North Korea is a good example of the new way. I'm quite certain that we would be fighting some kind of conflict with them if people like Paul Wolfowitz and Dick Cheney were in the White House today. Say what you want about Trump and his policies but the America-focused policies of his administration aren't going to squander this economy by starting a new fraudulent and unnecessary war on the other side of the world.

learc83 8y ago
>like Paul Wolfowitz and Dick Cheney John Bolton is exactly like those 2 and he's the National Security Advisor.
ethbro 8y ago
The US National Security Advisor (and at one time potential Secretary of State)? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Bolton#Political_positions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Bolton#Political_posit...
dragonwriter 8y ago
> I'm quite certain that we would be fighting some kind of conflict with them if people like Paul Wolfowitz and Dick Cheney were in the White House today. Did they discover oil since the last time Wolfowitz was in a position if influence. Because that was expressly cited as the reason Iraq was invaded and North Korea not then, by Wolfowitz. GWBush-era foreign policy had the kind of focus on domestic economic interests that Trump pretends to have, the main difference is that it had some substantive coherence rather than focus only as a PR veneer over a group of incompetently managed competing interests seeking personal advantage. That's not to say the say the execution of Bush foreign policy wasn't grossly incompetent, but and it's formulation wasn't grossly immoral, to be sure. Now, Venezuela might be a target of active intervention if the Bush team were still in charge.
- ethbro 8y ago
  Venezuela has generally been in crisis in the 20th (and start of the 21st century). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuelan_crisis_(disambiguation) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuelan_crisis_(disambigu... If the US hadn't brokered a debt repayment deal by threatening naval force against Britain, Germany, and Italy's blockade in 1903, there would likely still be a European-controlled port in Venezuela.

learc83 8y ago

>like Paul Wolfowitz and Dick Cheney John Bolton is exactly like those 2 and he's the National Security Advisor.

ethbro 8y ago

The US National Security Advisor (and at one time potential Secretary of State)? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Bolton#Political_positions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Bolton#Political_posit...

dragonwriter 8y ago

> I'm quite certain that we would be fighting some kind of conflict with them if people like Paul Wolfowitz and Dick Cheney were in the White House today. Did they discover oil since the last time Wolfowitz was in a position if influence. Because that was expressly cited as the reason Iraq was invaded and North Korea not then, by Wolfowitz. GWBush-era foreign policy had the kind of focus on domestic economic interests that Trump pretends to have, the main difference is that it had some substantive coherence rather than focus only as a PR veneer over a group of incompetently managed competing interests seeking personal advantage. That's not to say the say the execution of Bush foreign policy wasn't grossly incompetent, but and it's formulation wasn't grossly immoral, to be sure. Now, Venezuela might be a target of active intervention if the Bush team were still in charge.

ethbro 8y ago
Venezuela has generally been in crisis in the 20th (and start of the 21st century). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuelan_crisis_(disambiguation) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuelan_crisis_(disambigu... If the US hadn't brokered a debt repayment deal by threatening naval force against Britain, Germany, and Italy's blockade in 1903, there would likely still be a European-controlled port in Venezuela.