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Tuesday, May 26, 2020
Trump's foreign policy
“In the planned incompetence of the Trump transition, nobody with foreign policy stature and an international network had been put in place – even the new secretary of state designate, Rex Tillerson, had no real experience in foreign policy.” Wolff, Fire and Fury, p. 226. Initially, Trump's foreign policy amounted to little more than selling even more arms to the Saudis, aiding their bullying of Qatar, and stroking the Egyptian strongman, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. When the Crown Prince of the House of Saud offered himself to Kushner as his guy in the Saudi kingdom, that was “like meeting someone nice at your first day of boarding school,” said Kushner's friend.
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