The nature of our political system, which has an essentially baked-in sea change of domestic and foreign policy attitudes at a common interval of eight years means that our capacity to make security guarantees is very, very limited. We should therefore be very, very cautious about making them in the first place.
The nature of our political system, which has an essentially baked-in sea change of domestic and foreign policy attitudes at a common interval of eight years means that our capacity to make security guarantees is very, very limited. We should therefore be very, very cautious about making them in the first place.
We just saw that we're only ever one bad election away from electing a wrecking ball into an executive branch that has accumulated the powers of a somewhat-restrained constitutional monarchy. In terms of tangible response our word is largely meaningless and other states should regard it as such.
The nature of our political system, which has an essentially baked-in sea change of domestic and foreign policy attitudes at a common interval of eight years means that our capacity to make security guarantees is very, very limited. We should therefore be very, very cautious about making them in the first place.
We just saw that we're only ever one bad election away from electing a wrecking ball into an executive branch that has accumulated the powers of a somewhat-restrained constitutional monarchy. In terms of tangible response our word is largely meaningless and other states should regard it as such.