Max Fisher

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Agreed. IMO this overstates the degree to which Assad is driven by a desire to make Western leaders look bad, rathe… https://t.co/HsmkdXq8et — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

cher is such a stickler for parliamentary procedure https://t.co/bRrzVnEnSh — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

which US interest was ruthlessly and transactionally promoted by yelling at the australian pm? by hosting farage, thereby insulting may? — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

when trump repeatedly demonstrates that he does not understand how NATO is funded, that is not best described as "transactional" — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

"but trump is so ruthlessly transactional with allies." no he is not. he is jettisoning existing alliance value-adds for nothing in return. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

there's also this weird myth that realists believe in non-interference. i guess maybe check out the wikipedia page for cambodia? — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

every president has embraced dictators. often for different reasons and in different degrees. but not the case "dictator allies = realist" — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@Nate_Cohn off-shore balancing requires working through a heavy alliance structure — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

theory that trump embraced sisi out of ruthless pursuit of the national interest would require that the US gained somehow. not sure it did. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

the notion that trump is driven by ruthless promotion of interests and hard-nosed realism withstands very little scrutiny — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

the strongest explanation for trump's shrug at human rights abroad is that he doesn't care and is disengaged from foreign policy — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

realists don't believe in bellicosity for the sake of it. trump does. realists believe in mutually beneficial alliances. trump doesnt. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

trump is a nationalist, not a realist. that's not conjecture -- he is quite open about this himself. those are two different things. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

for that matter, the american realist tradition heavily emphasizes global integration and alliance-building. it's kissinger's whole thing. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

"realism" is an affirmative worldview, not just an absence of caring about human rights or international engagement — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

i read these emerging theories that trump is some hard-nosed kissingerian realist and i'm sorry but i just don't see it — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@fmanjoo one wonders: was the clock on the table? did they take it off, to make room for all the options? — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

fyi to editors — my appetite for articles on the badness of the pepsi ad is basically bottomless — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@blakehounshell yes in retrospect a number of differences are clear that may have been murkier at the time — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

This is very important point. FP decisions are later deemed brilliant or disastrous based on outcomes that were unk… https://t.co/ZKcCUFhJPQ — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

feels like a nuke test is around the corner https://t.co/1D66XDEhlC — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

oh man a clock AND a table. if they break out the sticks and the carrots we will be in a state of formal metaphor w… https://t.co/OtqONfm5aR — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Just when you thought Dems were down and out, they find a winning message: the Iraq War, except this time here at h… https://t.co/IPsrna8qNy — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @BenjySarlin: The spiders can't devour us fast enough https://t.co/VvLWksA33U — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @Aelkus: However, the idea that war is a secular crusade and involves the smiting of the wicked pervades how Americans discuss it. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Surely this set of unprovable counterfactuals and red-faced twitter debates will settle the issue once and for all — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Ah good, round #382 of the Great Debate over whether Obama not launching punitive strikes in 2013 retroactively cau… https://t.co/WUq72CYRqJ — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@bungdan I don't think that trend has remotely abated — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@nateisgood i think he’s referring to the ultra-elaborate twitter theories that go much further than mere interference — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Not that middle positions are inherently superior, but striking there’s no real middleground on the question of Chinese economic stability. — PolitiTweet.org