Ready, Fire, What Comes Next I Forget 0
Paul Krugman considers Donald Trump’s performance at NATO and dissects the madness behind his method. A snippet:
The institutions Trump is trying to destroy were all created under U.S. leadership in the aftermath of World War II. Those were years of epic statesmanship — the years of the Berlin airlift and the Marshall Plan, in which America showed its true greatness. For having won the war, we chose not to behave like a conqueror but instead to build the foundations of lasting peace.
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And what Trump is trying to do is undermine that system, making bullying great again.
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