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It's more than that, it's unbelievably dangerous. There's a reason world leaders don't do stuff like that in public, we just signaled loud and clear we're absolutely not to be trusted. If China wants to make a move on Taiwan, the DPRK wants to shell Seoul, or Russia wants to test Article 5 they just got a lot more confident in our lack of conviction. And all our allies had better be drawing up contingencies that don't involve us coming to their aid.


Maybe, maybe not. They may also conclude Trump is unhinged and can flip on a dime, and it would be risky to predict his response.




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