Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland stressed “the need for the rest of us to set our own clear and sovereign course.” https://t.co/yYm486Tlu9
— George Atherton (@notrehta) September 30, 2017
the article ends with this:
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There are many reasons to be appalled by President Trump, including his disregard for constitutional norms and decent behavior. But watching this unlikeliest of presidents strut on the treacherous stage of international politics is different from following the daily domestic chaos that is the Trump administration. Hearing him bully and brag, boast and bluster, threaten and lie, one feels a kind of dizziness, a sensation that underneath the throbbing pulse of routine scandal lies the potential for much worse. The kind of sensation, in fact, that accompanies dangerously high blood pressure, just before a sudden, excruciating pain.
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Fisher was First Sea Lord of the Admiralty but resigned in 1915 in protest over the decision to “pivot” to Gallipoli. That pivot was championed by Churchill. Big mistake. He should have listened to Fisher.
“A good army of 50,000 men and sea power—that is the end of the Turkish menace,” declared First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill.
Instead, by the time Allied forces withdrew in defeat in January 1916, close to half a million soldiers—nearly 180,000 Allied troops, 253,000 Turks—had been killed or wounded. Australia suffered 28,150 casualties at Gallipoli, including 8,700 dead, nearly one-sixth of the casualties it endured during the Great War.
And so it goes.