US National Security Is Getting ‘Loomered’
After the witch trial in the Oval Office and the Signal scandal, US foreign policy seems adrift. So long, "peace through strength."
Loomering over national security.
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It can always get worse. There’s no reason to think that President Donald Trump will stop at causing chaos in world trade and stock markets, the American executive branch, the legal profession and public health. He’s also well on the way to making America less safe under the most immediate definition: by undermining his own national-security staff, and thereby endangering the nation’s security.
In recent days, the White House has been orchestrating what you might call a Week of the Long Knives among the ranks of people who are normally expected to advise the president on foreign threats. More than half a dozen top counselors have already been let go, and others are at risk. In the latest neologism coined for this White House, they have been “Loomered.”