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Just One Thing: The Waltz backstory (probably)
One never knows for sure, but this story makes sense: Mike Waltz was the most hawkish member of the Trump national security team and supports military action against Iran. Trump wants to try diplomacy and he has a lot of people around him from the Tucker Carlson wing of the party who prefer America's enemies to our friends and would be fine letting Iran continue developing a nuclear program. To be clear, I don't think Trump is with those guys; I think he just wants to try diplomacy first. After all, there probably hasn't been as much of an anti-war president during my lifetime as Trump and that's something I appreciate about him as long as he doesn't turn into Neville Chamberlain -- and he probably won't.
Given Waltz's perspective, it also makes sense that he was never particularly popular with folks like JD Vance and the evil Laura Loomer and it's perhaps less surprising that he's been removed from the National Security Advisor job than it is that he was given a less important but potentially fascinating new gig as the US Ambassador to the UN. I guess in that post he'll have almost no influence over creating US policy; he'll just be told how to vote. One wonders if he'll be told to vote in a way he can't stomach and will resign. As a good soldier, he'll probably just salute and say "Yes, sir!"
Waltz’s coordination with Netanyahu on Iran strike contributed to his firing – report
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