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Sezin Öney, originally from Turkey, is based in Budapest and Istanbul. She her journalism career as a foreign news reporter in 1999 and she turned into political analysis as a columnist since 2007. Her interest in her main academic subject area of populism was sparked almost decade ago; and now she focuses specifically on populist leadership, and populism in Turkey and Hungary. She studied international relations, nationalism, international law, Jewish history, comparative politics and discourse analysis across Europe.
Another Hawk Has Landed At The White House, Here's Why We Should Care
"You are fired!" For a long time, this was one of Donald Trump's best-known lines. Those were the times of the reality-show "The Apprentice".
And now, he is at it again. This time, as US President, he is firing his closest White House associates, his A-team. But he does not even tell them directly: as in the case of the "ex"-Secretary of State, they may find out via Twitter. The US President loves to tweet, as is well-known, and he just sends a "thank you" and "bye" message to shut out those holding the most prestigious government positions. Then enter the new "men (and occasionally women) of the King".
Trump launched his 2020 Presidential Campaign bid on March 10, 2018, announcing that his new slogan will be "Keep America Great!", because "Make America Great Again" is—well, already great, because he is the President.
And now, Trump is raising the stakes for the campaign and surrounding himself with "hawks". From ex-CIA Director and new Secretary of State candidate Mike Pompeo to the new CIA Director Gina Haspel, and now to the new National Security Advisor John Bolton, the newcomers to top jobs advocate torture, war and use of all means to achieve goals.
But what will those goals be?
This article of Vox by Zack Beauchamp outlines the profile of one hawk: John Bolton. Simply put, Bolton is an advocate of war and annihilation of "America's enemies". Previously, these were "North Korea, Iran and Iraq", the "axis of evil" as Bolton referred to these countries. With this warmongering style, Bolton was "too much" even for the George Bush Jr presidency, and in Beauchamp's words, "John Bolton represents the Fox News-ification of foreign policy".
Beauchamp goes on to add:
Bolton is national security adviser, with direct access to the president and tremendous influence over a vast and powerful national security bureaucracy. And many foreign policy experts are deeply concerned about what that means.
Maybe, we should all be concerned wherever we are in the world, too.
