John Bolton is out as President Trump's National Security Advisor. Trump says he fired Bolton,
Bolton says he offered to resign first. Both suggested that the departure was due to disagreements over foreign policy, which
independent reports seem to confirm.
Personally, I do not care. I don't care if Trump fired Bolton over an argument about which Sesame Street characters would win in a bare knuckle boxing match. I don't care if Bolton was carried bodily out of the White House by a strong gust of wind.
Trying to sort out the specifics of the drama in an administration packed with lying sociopaths is always an exercise in futility, and in this case it's even more pointless, because all that matters is that John Bolton is gone now. That is an intrinsically good thing, by itself, regardless of what events led up to it.
Trump
says he's going to name a new National Security Advisor next week, and the good news is that it is literally impossible for whoever he ends up picking to be worse than John Bolton.
They might not be any better, but there's no way they can be more of a bloodthirsty psychopathic monster than their predecessor, because Bolton is without exaggeration as bad as it gets in terms of sheer drive to start World War Three. Right now Bolton's acting replacement is a
neocon ghoul named Charles Kupperman, who analyst Jeffrey Kaye
describes as "a Reaganite neanderthal Islamophobe, a creature of the defense industry, and a very close associate of Bolton himself," and
there are rumors that another vile neoconservative Bolton ally,
former CIA analyst Fred Fleitz, is among the top possible picks.
So we can't be confident that Bolton's replacement will be any better, but we can absolutely be confident that they won't be any worse.
It is an indisputably positive thing that
the former PNAC director who is so psychopathic that he once
threatened to murder the children of an OPCW official for inconveniencing his attempts to engineer the Iraq invasion is no longer in the most powerful foreign policy advisory position on planet Earth. That is clearly and obviously an intrinsically beneficial thing for all of humanity. So of course the leaders of the Democratic Party are objecting to it.
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