By Nicolas Niarchos

Nicolas Niarchos is a freelance journalist whose writing on international
relations has appeared in The Nation and The New Yorker. He is at work on a book
about the supply chain for battery metals.

Aug. 27, 2024

Recently on the campaign trail, Donald Trump has talked up his aggressive stance
on China, positioning himself as a tough negotiator in a brutal trade war. But a
new memoir by Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, one of Trump’s national security advisers,
throws that narrative, and many other stories that Trump tells about his time in
office, into stark relief.

As McMaster writes in “At War With Ourselves,” the president could sometimes be
kept on the straight and narrow with a clever dose of reverse psychology (Xi
Jinping wants you to say this, Xi Jinping wants you to say that). But just as
often, McMaster shows Trump to have been an unpredictable waffler who undermined
himself to the advantage of his competitors on the world stage.

In November 2017, President Trump visited China on the third leg of a 13-day
trip around Asia. It was his “most consequential” destination, McMaster
explains. As they flew to Beijing, he warned Trump that Xi would try to trick
him into saying something that was good for China, but bad for the United States
and its allies. “The C.C.P.’s favorite phrase, ‘win-win,’” he recalls telling
his boss at one point, “actually meant that China won twice.”

Trump seemed to hear him, but in the Great Hall of the People, the president
strayed from his talking points. He agreed with Xi that military exercises in
South Korea were “provocative” and a “waste of money” and suggested that China
might have a legitimate claim to Japan’s Senkaku Islands. McMaster, his stomach
sinking, passed a note to Gen. John Kelly, the chief of staff: Xi “ate our
lunch,” it read.

“At War With Ourselves” is intended to be a companion to “Battlegrounds,”
McMaster’s 2020 assessment of U.S. foreign policy backsliding since the Cold
War, but it works well as a stand-alone and serves as essential reading for
anyone countenancing a potential second round of Trump as a global leader. The
general shows how, despite his best efforts to help the president, the supposed
master of the “art of the deal” was treated like a “chump” by a roster of the
world’s top authoritarians.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/27/books/review/at-war-with-ourselves-hr-mcmaster.html

Trump was treated as a chump by world leaders because Trump *is and always has
been* a chump. He is easily fooled. He has no critical thinking ability at all.

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Every Republiscum/QAnon accusation is, in fact, a confession

On 8/27/2024 11:15 AM, Rudy Canoza wrote:
> By Nicolas Niarchos
>
> Nicolas Niarchos is a freelance journalist whose writing on
> international relations has appeared in The Nation and The New Yorker.

That disqualifies him from any serious authorship considerations right
there.

McMaster was a poor choice in the first place.

On Tue, 27 Aug 2024 12:21:10 -0700, "Mark W." <posted@altopia.org> wrote:

>On 8/27/2024 11:15 AM, Rudy Canoza wrote:
>> By Nicolas Niarchos
>>
>> Nicolas Niarchos is a freelance journalist whose writing on
>> international relations has appeared in The Nation and The New Yorker.
>
>That disqualifies him from any serious authorship considerations right
>there.
>
>McMaster was a poor choice in the first place.

According to you guys, Trump made a *lot* of poor staffing choices. So why put
him in office to do it again?

--
#NEVERtrump

>Niarchos

Trump's surrender deal with the Taliban was pretty good.

For the Taliban.

Governor Swill wrote:
> According to you guys

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I might go to some swing state that is very close in the polls, and try
to become a mole saboteur in the Trump campaign. That sound like fun!

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...adding in electoral fraud to your public death threats...

YOUR DEATH THREATS AGAINST TRUMP ARE WELL-DOCUMENTED:

Governor Swill /Rudy Canoza/Lou Bricano/J Carlson/Michael A Terrell/Al
Feldhauser/Malte Runz and a dozen other socks wrote:

Multiple death threats against Trump:
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Oh poor me I got shot at ...

Swill
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Cheer up, maybe someone else will try.

Swill

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> No. I am a patriotic American who wants the country and its people to
thrive. Getting rid of Trump permanently
> is an important step to getting there.

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That constitutes a DEATH THREAT against a former President, Rudey:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/871
18 U.S. Code § 871 - Threats against President and successors to the
Presidency
U.S. Code
Notes
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(a)Whoever knowingly and willfully deposits for conveyance in the mail
or for a delivery from any post office or by any letter carrier any
letter, paper, writing, print, missive, or document containing any
threat to take the life of, to kidnap, or to inflict bodily harm upon
the President of the United States, the President-elect, the Vice
President or other officer next in the order of succession to the office
of President of the United States, or the Vice President-elect, or
knowingly and willfully otherwise makes any such threat against the
President, President-elect, Vice President or other officer next in the
order of succession to the office of President, or Vice President-elect,
shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years,
or both.
(b)The terms “President-elect” and “Vice President-elect” as used in
this section shall mean such persons as are the apparent successful
candidates for the offices of President and Vice President,
respectively, as ascertained from the results of the general elections
held to determine the electors of President and Vice President in
accordance with title 3, United States Code, sections 1 and 2. The
phrase “other officer next in the order of succession to the office of
President” as used in this section shall mean the person next in the
order of succession to act as President in accordance with title 3,
United States Code, sections 19 and 20.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 740; June 1, 1955, ch. 115, § 1, 69
Stat. 80; Pub. L. 87–829, § 1, Oct. 15, 1962, 76 Stat. 956; Pub. L.
97–297, § 2, Oct. 12, 1982, 96 Stat. 1318; Pub. L. 103–322, title
XXXIII, § 330016(1)(H), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)

9-65.200 - Threats Against the President and Successors to the
Presidency; Threats Against Former Presidents; and Certain Other Secret
Service Protectees
The Counterterrorism Section of the National Security Division has
supervisory authority over 18 U.S.C. §§ 871 and 879 cases. As great
caution must be taken in matters relating to the security of the persons
protected by 18 U.S.C. § 871, United States Attorneys are encouraged to
consult with the Counterterrorism Section (CTS) of the National Security
Division when they have doubts on the prosecutive merit of a case. For
the same reason, dismissal of complaints under 18 U.S.C. § 871, when the
defendant is in custody under the Mental Incompetency Statutes (18
U.S.C. §§ 4244, 4246), requires approval from CTS. In other cases,
United States Attorneys must consult prior to dismissing a count
involving, or entering into any sentence commitment or other case
settlement involving a § 871 charge.

https://www.secretservice.gov/newsroom/releases/2024/01/phoenix-man-arrested-making-online-death-threats-against-president-and

PHOENIX –David Michael Hanson, 41, of Phoenix, was arrested on Wednesday
for making online threats against the President and Vice-President.
Hanson was charged by Federal criminal complaint on Tuesday with five
counts of Threats Against the President and Successors to the Presidency
and five counts of Interstate Communication of Threats.

>etal

H.R. McMaster hates America because he spoke negatively about Trump.

Maybe you should call 911 and place an order for a SWAT team or utter death
threats online against him. Your actions will garner favor from Trump.
There may even be a leadership role for you in the White House.

Apt punishment for hurting Trump's feelings.

>That disqualifies him from any serious authorship considerations right
>there.
>
>McMaster was a poor choice in the first place.
>

He's clearly a man of low moral character because he doesn't like Trump and
criticizes him. Trump is the kind of man all our children aspire to be.

Hopefully the military coward HR will receive punishment for his outrageous
actions once Trump is installed as POTUS. McMaster is just jealous over
Trump's stellar military record, his bravery and well spoken, intelligent
manner.