The War Party must not get away with “reining him in” on Russia policy for a second time.
The following is an excerpt from “Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine“:
It remains uncertain whether Trump has learned from his experience as president the last time around. Personnel is policy, as they say, and Trump seems to be as reliant on hawks as ever. As this book goes to press, President-elect Trump has announced that his former CIA director and secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, will not be joining him in the new administration, nor will his former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, nor son-in-law Jared Kushner. This is very good news. Unfortunately, he also named the hawkish New York Congresswoman Elise Stefanik for UN ambassador, and the absolutely horrible Ukraine war supporter Rep. Mike Waltz — who signed on with Liz Cheney to stop Trump from leaving Afghanistan, and supports conscripting young girls into the military — to be national security adviser.
In an absolute betrayal of his pretensions toward an America First foreign policy, Trump named the avowedly interventionist Senator Marco Rubio who has supported every single horrible thing that he possibly could since joining the legislature, to be his secretary of state. Trump’s enemy, the Russiagate theorist and avowed war hawk, former Representative Adam Kinzinger, said he thought Rubio was a “good choice.”
Trump then named Fox News host Pete Hegseth — an Iraq and Afghan war veteran who has supported the war in Ukraine in the past, claiming “the future of America and the Western world” were on the line there — as his nominee for secretary of defense.
