re: #239 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I’ll wait to hear more solid confirmation. But if this is true about South Korea and Germany it is truly a scorched earth policy, damage the country on the way out the door, quite possibly for his paymasters abroad. https://t.co/jE3vDGzxO0

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) November 18, 2020

A reminder to all: the Pat Buchanan/Ron Paul wing of the GOP has a lot of influence. They believe firmly in isolationism: we need a military strong enough to deter any foreign attacks on our soil but we don’t care what happens elsewhere. They would have happily traded with Japan and Germany in the 1930’s and certainly would have had no interest in intervening to stop genocide or mass murder. The neo-cons (including Bill Kristol) who figured so prominently during the Bush 43 Iraq war obviously hold very different views but their influence has waned.