Max Fisher

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RT @rebeccaballhaus: Trump arrived 30 minutes late to today’s NATO summit, missed his scheduled meetings with at least two world leaders, p… — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

What is Trump’s strategy in going after NATO? What’s the goal? Some say it’s about defense budgets, others suspect it’s about this: https://t.co/FnX4slZxNL — PolitiTweet.org

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“If you see some of the things that I see through intelligence reports that’s going on in Africa. It’s so sad. It’s so vicious and violent.” Then transitions to saying the US has the world’s best fighter planes. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump on Iran: “At a certain point they’re going to call me and they’re going to say let’s make a deal.” Interest in a North Korea-style summit with Iran? Hard to say because he then shouts-down the reporter and barks “Go ahead! Go ahead!” at the next reporter. — PolitiTweet.org

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Question about what Trump sees in Putin prompts a weird divergence on Trump musing on whether they can become IRL friends. “I don’t know him well enough to be friends. … But it could happen someday." — PolitiTweet.org

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“I brought it up. Nobody brought it up but me. But now we’re all talking about it, and nobody was talking about it before." — PolitiTweet.org

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“That’s what we call it. Burden-sharing. I was using that term a lot today. Burden-sharing." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump now positioning himself as having gotten “tough” and extracted big concessions from the Europeans. Looks like he finally took the artificial “win" that the Europeans put on a platter for him, but made sure to humiliate his hosts first. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump, in emergency NATO presser, talking about Europeans funding “the costs of NATO.” That’s not how this works. This whole thing is turning on a very basic misunderstanding. Is there no one who can explain this to him? — PolitiTweet.org

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Where can I stream the NATO presser? — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @PhilipinDC: Full quote from senior White House official on Trump threat to leave #NATO right here: https://t.co/RTbOq2vg1w — PolitiTweet.org

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It’s very possible that we are on the cusp of a history-changing collapse of the Western security order based on one person’s mistaken belief that European defense budgets are payments to the United States. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump's demand that Europeans dump tens of billions of dollars into their defense budgets overnight: • Not consistent with the 2% goal, which is for 2024, not right now • Politically impossible for most leaders • Military spending doesn't work that way; would accomplish little — PolitiTweet.org

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Since a lot of people are missing this, maybe including some very senior Americans: the 2%-of-GDP defense spending goal that Trump is so upset about ... is supposed to be a target for 2024. Not for right now. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @rebeccaballhaus: Merkel, May, Macron and Trudeau, all walked ahead on their way into the NATO summit family photo this afternoon. Trump… — PolitiTweet.org

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When France left NATO (which it did only partially, despite de Gaulle's declaration of a full withdrawal), it took 43 years before it fully rejoined. — PolitiTweet.org

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I don’t mean to single out this one WaPo piece, which is hardly the only one trying to assign a grand strategy to the NATO outbursts. But I just don’t see it, and after 18 months of this I’d think we’d have a good grasp of how he conducts foreign policy. — PolitiTweet.org

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For another, it’s not like Trump is trying to shift burden-sharing onto Europe so he can cut defense spending. He’s said he wants to make US defense spending the highest in a generation, whether it’s needed or not. — PolitiTweet.org

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For one, the point of greater European defense spending is to strengthen the collective defense of Europe… which Trump has said over and over he doesn’t believe is a worthwhile pursuit. Why would he go to such lengths for something he doesn’t even want? — PolitiTweet.org

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I’m sorry, but I just don’t buy that Trump’s NATO outbursts are part of some three-dimensional-chess galacto-brain strategy to “provoke” NATO allies into spending more on defense. (I will explain why) https://t.co/VEySElWgON — PolitiTweet.org

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Here's Guilhot again, showing how Pinker's championing of "progress" becomes a forceful argument on behalf of maint… https://t.co/z1sIX2aE4y — PolitiTweet.org

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Guilhot argues that Pinker's not-quite-right statistics and history "come together as an ideological argument in fa… https://t.co/A68M3ZVftg — PolitiTweet.org

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Historian Nicolas Guilhot argues that Pinker's "vision of what constitutes the Enlightenment is highly idiosyncrati… https://t.co/7t7UbpAkyl — PolitiTweet.org

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Pinker, whether he realizes it or not, is mapping his otherwise banal argument quite neatly onto the European far-r… https://t.co/2bIBeXC3cL — PolitiTweet.org

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There is something deeply uncomfortable with the Steven Pinker-led project to associate all human progress with “Th… https://t.co/t5UCzQfBg4 — PolitiTweet.org

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Given Silicon Valley’s track record, seems like near-100% odds that such a system would reproduce — and thereby dee… https://t.co/p6Lu6Ue3Go — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @AliceFordham: As Trump kicks off the NATO summit with a forceful one-two-punch on Germany for low defense spending and buying energy fr… — PolitiTweet.org

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"Trump’s focus on trade means Europe cannot conceivably meet his demands on defence spending. If the Europeans park… https://t.co/azcuzf2GCh — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JyShapiro: @Max_Fisher I’d agree: https://t.co/SXmsA2RTE2 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Max_Fisher: It seems to me that, while European defense spending is a reasonable shorthand for less quantifiable burden-sharing issues,… — PolitiTweet.org