Comments by "MarcosElMalo2" (@MarcosElMalo2) on "‘Putin is looking for a way out’ | John Bolton former National Security Advisor" video.

@thomasherrin6798 it’s a geopolitical question, not a question of blame. The root of the question is the deeper question of how involved should the U.S. be in Europe vs retreat into isolationism. The apartment building is an analogy, and I would look at it a different way: the U.S. is the apartment building next door to the European apartment building, which is on fire. Do we (the U.S.) help our neighbors put out the fire? Do we catch and punish the arsonist? I don’t think we want the fire to spread to our building. We want to punish the arsonist to discourage other would be arsonists.
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@aw2031zap It’s relative. When he was in the Bush administration, he was the crazy war monger, even more so than Rumsfeld. When he was in the Trump administration, he was one of the cooler heads, a restraint on Trump. 🤷🏻‍♀️ As far as his competence, intelligence, ability, he’s second or third echelon (Schultz and Albright being in the first rank). You could call him a quack, which is to say he committed malpractice like an incompetent medical doctor. I think that’s a little harsh. I think he was in over his head in the Bush administration. Personality-wise, he’s kind of a self-serving dirtbag. He was rude and brusque when pushing his opinion (following in the footsteps of Donald Rumsfeld), which made him well suited for the Trump administration. Anyway, there a lot to criticize. I think his war-mongering attitude was a pose which he had to drop when faced with a truly dumb superior and the stakes were higher. Bolton is mediocre, but he was better than some of the fools that might have served in his position.
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