he's a chickenhawk neocon that serves the interest of the deep state run us. he's hawkish towards china and north korea and friendly with japan.  it's possible that washington gave him the greenlight to go ahead with this in an attempt to maintain tension in the region, but it might be more likely that he's just winging it. maybe he figured that tptb would have his back but didn't tell them in advance and now he's fucked.  now the liberals are going to try to impeach him. while it could be a good thing to try and ease tensions with china and north korea, the liberals are liberal. obviously they present all kinds of other problems.
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