Trump has been setting this table for the entire year. He’s pursued a very clear agenda that has confounded his critics because so few of them are as smart or wise as they think they are.
He’s put the neocons into their corner, rattle in hand, stripping them of much of their political capital, even while, at times, looking like he played their game.
The best way to invalidate your opponent’s leverage is to expose who they really are….
That’s Trump’s superpower. It always has been. Now Europe has no choice but to fight a war they cannot win with weapons they can’t afford with soldiers who don’t have any desire to fight for heir leaders.
This is a recipe for the most epic failure in modern history.
And all he has to do is sit back and shake his head.