waltzing toward disaster

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : This is the sort of mindless hawkishness that Trump is embracing by picking Waltz.
55% : The US seems likely to increase its security commitments if Trump follows Waltz's recommendations.
46% : Trump continues his streak of choosing some of the most hardline men in the Republican Party to run his foreign policy.
46% : Trump has been interested in some sort of military option there for years, he and Vance campaigned on using force against cartels, and now Trump has picked one of the leading advocates of military action in Mexico as his top adviser.
42% : Trump is filling his administration with some of the most combative China hawks, including reportedly putting Florida Sen. Marco Rubio in charge of the State Department.
26% : Based on the Waltz appointment and the rest of the national security team that Trump is assembling, the second Trump administration is shaping up to be at least as aggressive and confrontational as the first one.
23% : Trump is once again surrounding himself with hardliners who will be urging him to use force and to tighten sanctions even more.
14% : If Trump heeds Waltz's advice, the US will be heading for disaster in several places at once.

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