At a recent news conference, President Obama called into question Donald Trump’s fitness for office by criticizing his policy stances on ceding living space to Russia as another great power and pushing wealthy U.S. allies to do more to defend themselves, so the United States wouldn’t need to continue to bear most of that burden. Although Obama may be right that Trump is generally unready to be president, Trump’s thinking on these specific issues is surprisingly insightful. Facing nearly $19 trillion debt, which has been accumulated in part by fighting expensive and unneeded brushfire wars overseas, an overstretched superpower now …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
