- Experts say President Donald Trump’s recent cabinet moves reveal that he’s more confident, sick of conventional wisdom, and will now go with his gut.
- Trump’s instincts seem to call for outright war or trade war with a number of countries.
- With Trump’s cabinet now stocked with hawks, the US doesn’t lack for credibility when it comes to threats of military action.
President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he would replace his National Security Adviser, H.R. McMaster, a noted hawk, with the even more hawkish former US ambassador to the UN, John Bolton.
Just one week earlier, he replaced his Secretary of State Rex Tillerson with CIA Director Mike Pompeo. See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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