Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸

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Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @MaxBoot

There is a crucial difference—one I did not sufficiently appreciate in the past—between defending democracy and exporting democracy. The US has a better track record of the former (think W Europe during Cold War) than the latter (think Afghanistan/Iraq). https://t.co/JhztGTgtrz — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 10, 2023

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Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @MaxBoot

Dictators have studied recent history & drawn the logical conclusions: Qaddafi & Saddam were overthrown after giving up WMD. Hence, any dictator who wants to stay in power needs nukes. This is another way that the US zeal in spreading democracy backfired. https://t.co/JhztGTgtrz — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 10, 2023

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Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @MaxBoot

One of the central arguments that I and other supporters of the Iraq invasion made was that regime change could trigger a broader democratic transformation in the Middle East. In hindsight, I am amazed and appalled that I fell prey to these mass delusions. https://t.co/JhztGTgtrz — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 10, 2023