TRUMP’S White House In-Waiting, Part III: Foreign Policy, I$raHell & the Return of the Neo-Cons
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To conclude this series of posts anticipating the imminent change of residents at the White House, it is worth paying mind to the issue of foreign policy.
It’s funny how quickly the Trump campaign mantra of “drain the swamp” really, properly stopped being a thing.
Not that I ever thought it was a thing anyway; but Trump’s ‘movement’ hasn’t even taken office yet and has already exposed itself as a cabal of extremely wealthy banking and business interests, hawkish figures, evangelicals and – to be frank – a couple of psychopaths for good measure.
To add to that, he also appears to have been acquiring more and more Bush era establishment figures to his incoming administration.
Which tends to undermine the popular perception or self-image of Trump as an isolationist not intere...