President Donald Trump has sacked John Bolton, his third national security adviser since taking office. Mr Bolton is a ferocious war hawk and defender of the Monroe Doctrine. Our story from when he was first appointed in 2018:
IN PROFESSIONAL wrestling, a fake form of combat mistaken for the real thing by some fans, a “carpenter” is a skilled wrestler of middling fame, whose job is to make rising stars look strong and intimidating.
In contrast, Mr Trump is a blustering showman who would always rather cut a deal than fight a war, and who calls the invasion of Iraq “the single worst decision ever made”, akin to “throwing a big fat brick into a hornet’s nest”. Mr Trump has repeatedly grumbled about the costs of NATO and suggested that America’s defensive alliances with its members are conditional on their paying more for their own defence.
How could the man who tweeted out those words hire Mr Bolton? Part of the answer lies in Mr Trump’s love for spangly-costumed wrestlers, with their staged fights and feuds. Mr Bolton is being hired as a carpenter. His unfeigned hawkishness is to be deployed to make Mr Trump, the rising star, look strong and intimidating.
That could have consequences very soon. Under American law Mr Trump must endorse the Iran nuclear freeze brokered by Mr Obama and other world powers every few months, or walk away from it. The next deadline falls in May. Mr Trump calls it a “terrible” agreement that expires in several years’ time and that fails to rein in Iranian missile programmes and broader mischief-making in the Middle East.
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