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a panama thing, let alone some greenland / canada / mexico thing, would instantly justify in retrospect russia’s ukraine thing and in prospect china’s taiwan thing. kind of what a russian-asset american president might attempt.
@interfluidity Maybe I'm wrong but I feel sanguine about this. Even Putin needed 15+ years to build up to a real invasion. And it's not like America doesn't already have enough misdeeds for Russia and China to point to. On balance, any time Trump spends thinking about foreign policy is time he's not thinking about domestic policy.
@akkartik i guess i’m not as sanguine. it’s really weird. hopefully it’s just bullshit, but if it isn’t it amounts to an open concession of reversion to great power sphere-of-interest politics, which is exactly what Russia and China have been demanding, and post-Cold-War Pax Americana, for all its flaws, has resisted.
@interfluidity Hmm, I suppose foreign policy has even fewer checks and balances on him than domestic?
@akkartik very few checks. there’s the war powers act, a custom at best honored in the breach. i wonder how resistant the military would be to some bizarre adventure, and whether Trump would have the energy to knock heads in order to insist.
@interfluidity Congratulations. I promised myself I wouldn't pay attention to his bullshit this time around. You have broken through.
@akkartik i’m sorry. i’m a vector.