So, Trump’s bark is again louder than its bite. Our allies can’t trust anything they’re hearing out of this Administration, and that’s yet another reason why Pence keeps going overseas - it’s a nonstop apology tour to placate our allies that Trump’s not the shit-show that everyone here knows he is.

Trump’s foreign policy is a shit-show, but the Times will treat it as a very serious thing.

Trump’s entire worldview is reactionary, and it makes no sense. It’s incoherent. It’s based on whatever he last read on Alex Jones’ site or Prison Planet or Gateway Pundit or heard on Fox News in the morning.

So, he claims that the Navy is sending one of its carriers to the waters off North Korea; that by itself is significant, since that’d reassure our allies in South Korea and Japan, and would also send warning signals to North Korea (a threat), and China would see the seriousness of the action.

Instead, the carrier task force headed in the opposite direction - towards the Indian Ocean. Which means our allies are left holding the bag, since one of the deterrents to North Korean aggression is now not there, and North Korea sees Trump for the empty threat gasbag he always has been.

There are so many ways to skewer this latest Trump gaffe on military/foreign policy matters, that it boggles. No one in his inner circle cares to shed any light on any of this - mostly because they don’t care or wont listen to anyone who might know or care.

The JCS? These are the last line of defense here, and they’ve got to be running a fine line here. But something will give way here before long, and it will get very ugly in the chain of command, precisely because Trump’s not right in the head, nor are any of the people advising him.