EA on talkRADIO: Chaos — Mattis Quits, Trump Rages, and Brexit Sinks into Farce

Posted by Scott Lucas | Dec 21, 2018 | 0

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis will leave office on February 28, 2019

In our last 15-minute Week in Review for 2018, I spoke with talkRADIO’s Paul Ross on Friday about the resignation of US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis — giving up his attempt to control Donald Trump — the descent of Brexit into farce in the UK Government and Parliament.

We put Mattis’s departure into the specific context of Syria and the general context of an unstable and information-challenged Trump:

Trump has decided now that he’s smarter than anyone else in the world, even those generals to whom he kind of deferred at the start of his Administration.

TrumpWatch, Day 700: Mattis Quits With Sharp Rebuke to Trump

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Scott Lucas

Scott Lucas is Professor of International Politics at the Clinton Institute, University College Dublin; Professor Emeritus of International Politics at the University of Birmingham; and editor-in-chief of EA WorldView.He is a specialist in US and British foreign policy and international relations, especially the Middle East and Iran. Formerly he worked as a journalist in the US, writing for newspapers including the Guardian and The Independent and was an essayist for The New Statesman before he founded EA WorldView in November 2008.

EA on talkRADIO: Chaos — Mattis Quits, Trump Rages, and Brexit Sinks into Farce

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis will leave office on February 28, 2019

In our last 15-minute Week in Review for 2018, I spoke with talkRADIO’s Paul Ross on Friday about the resignation of US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis — giving up his attempt to control Donald Trump — the descent of Brexit into farce in the UK Government and Parliament.

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