Another Trump veteran describes what it is like to encounter the bureaucracy: “The problem presidents have when they come into office is they all have their own feelings about engagement with the world, but they walk into this fifty-thousand-person department that wrote the policy on Ukraine, Afghanistan, and the world. They own the policy; it’s their life’s work. You look at the National Security Council and it’s made up of many of the same people who own and believe in our existing foreign policies. So you have these discussions with a president who doesn’t want to be screwing around in
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