Max Fisher

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

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

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

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

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

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

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

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

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

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

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

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

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

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

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

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

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

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

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Deliberately dividing the European alliance by forcing a totally unnecessary choice between its two leading members… https://t.co/pSW0wOuYEZ — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jpolga: The Latin Americanization of US politics continues! https://t.co/xPMDupJpHj — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @dylanmatt: @baseballcrank @charlescwcooke I get that you guys enjoy lying about us, but here's Matt calling for an end of the filibuste… — PolitiTweet.org

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@EllenBarryNYT This is probably my fault. Last week on the Piccadilly line I gently cleared my throat to alert fell… https://t.co/t9AKfVDU9Z — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

We like to believe that our sense of right-and-wrong comes from our upbringing or from deep in our hearts or whatev… https://t.co/EGzlYObEKi — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

This disturbing story shows how social media hyper-charges our instinct to join a group and "defend" it by attackin… https://t.co/SZeUpfqVAp — PolitiTweet.org

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Maybe more immediately salient than his views on impeachment (which is unlikely to come before SCOTUS), Kavanaugh h… https://t.co/VGdwbNkvFz — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Stone_SkyNews: NATO is one of a number of institutions where I have heard insiders talk about how they are trying to ride out @realDona… — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

All to say, the overwhelming focus on European defense spending can be a distraction or outright setback to the pur… https://t.co/KH2NKow5RO — PolitiTweet.org