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AndrewE's avatar

Pompeo sounds deranged. I can't believe neoconservatism is still a thing. It's like Iraq and Afghanistan never happened.

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Pompeo would look appropriate with some bagpipes - even at his reduced weight. I agree with Mark that he is unbalanced. His personal ambition has ALWAYS been VERY poorly concealed and he has always been neo-con establishment. What he does he does well - it is just wrong. Was Trump so bereft of candidates for SOS? Was he lied to? Where did the pressure for Pompeo come from? If Trump becomes President again he needs a Philippe de Commines, a Mazarin, or a Richilieu - someone strategic and cunning who knows the people of the foreign policy establishment and the workings of the DOS, DOD, intelligence agencies, and deep state, and is conniving enough to undercut them. Does such a person exist?

I think the changeover in government heads in Europe will cascade now. The question is will the replacements persist in the same policies? I think the governmental systems in Europe are too impervious to change at this point (case in point the German Greens). And are all of the candidates compromised as in Britain? What will it take to actually effect change in policies? How much will people put up with? We will see. As the Dutch and German farmers are just beginning to understand, freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.

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