TWZ: Former CENTCOM Commander on the Situation in the Strait of Hormuz

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One bit that seems right to me, FWIW:

Well, we’ve had a pretty adversarial discussion going on, particularly with our European allies for at least the last 12 to 14 months with them. We haven’t really sent a positive signal. And the whole thing about Greenland and getting everybody fired up over that, and pushing that kind of thing, I think really gave some pause to them.
And of course, you know, there’s continuous rhetoric coming from across the administration towards this, and in the lead up to this, we apparently didn’t do any kind of consultation with any of our partners that we expected would be impacted by this, or whose resources we thought we would need.

Trump has been a disaster in this respect, seems to me.

And I was behind him when he kicked NATO in the ass re: building up their military to agreed-upon levels. I think they needed that. Not that it matters what I think.

But in the second term, he's just been bullying everybody.

I suspect it's some kind of extension of his approach to domestic policy, where he's realized that we are fighting for the survival of the nation against an insidious and implacable opponent. The cult has its tentacles deeply embedded everywhere. And it is ruthless. And so, unfortunately, we have to be...well...at least more ruthless than we've been to this point...

But he's gotta stop acting like a crazy person to our foreign allies.