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Mike Waltz, as Trump's national security advisor, raises some important questions

Mike Waltz gave up one of the confident seats in the congress to act as President Donald Trump's national security advisor (Trump won the district by 30 points in November). In return, he was suspended after the other before he had issued the job in 101 days in 101 days and received the consolation price of a nomination as a US ambassador in the United Nations.

Conventional wisdom about Waltz will probably concentrate on his epic signal group chat screw connection, in which he accidentally added Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor of the Atlantic, to a high-ranking discussion about US military attacks against Yemen.

Signal gate is hardly the only reason for the downfall of Waltz.

Certainly that did not help, but that Defense Minister Pete Hegseth sent military attack plans in the same group chat – and has also told her with his wife and brother and still has his job, signal gate is hardly the only reason for Waltz 'fall.

Waltz 'problem was that Waltz knew a bit too much when managed by Know-Hinger-American Firmsters, concerned Trump-Sycophants and National Safety subjects and drank too little from the Maga Kool-Aid.

Waltz is a rather conventional republican foreign policy falcon, but in contrast to many in Trump's foreign policy inner circle, he had actual national security experience. He won four bronze stars, while serving in the US special units, worked in Pentagon and on the employees of Vice President Dick Cheney during the Bush administration and worked for the House Armed Services committee.

But Waltz 'even greater sin was to assemble a staff of the National Security Council, to whom people who, like him, focused their career on foreign policy. This included his assistant Alex Wong, who worked as a foreign policy advisor for Mitt Romney's presidential campaign in 2012, and helped the North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un at the organization of Trump's summit 2018. Wong was also released on Thursday.

Waltz and Wong followed a large number of NSC employees who were released after the intervention by Laura Loomer, a well -known conspiracy theorist and Trump Whisperer. At the beginning of April, she had an Oval Office meeting with the president, in which she reports reported several NSC employees of the ultimate Maga sin: infidelity towards Trump.

Loomer's accusations were reported to other Ouster, including that of Brian Walsh, a former top aid by Marco Rubio, who was supposedly released because he held a transgender -detail from the intelligence community in his employees.

Waltz seemed to forget the cardinal rule of Maga – experience and intelligence that is little for Trump. After all, this is a president who has spent real estate development to the end of the war in Ukraine and the handling of a nuclear agreement with Iran to a man, Steve Witkoff who spent his career. In addition, Trump's frustration about Waltz 'signal screw-up strengthening seemed to do as much with the fact that he was apparently friends with Goldberg, a real insider in Washington, than to show such bad judgment in the discussion of national security issues in a commercially available social messing app.

His demands for a tougher attitude towards Russia and his general dispute over Iran and China contributed to his political fall.

Waltz also stabbed the Maga amount in political matters. He seemed to understand that Trump's appeasement of Vladimir Putin was a bad strategy about the war in Ukraine (he was apparently one of the loudest lawyers within the administration to sharpen the sanctions against Russia if Putin did not agree to an arm arrest). His demands for a tougher attitude towards Russia and his general dispute over Iran and China contributed to his political fall. If not for signal or even his attitude, Waltz meant a lack of loyalty to Trump's America First Agenda that his term in the White House would probably always be short.

In fact, Waltz could have learned a lot from the man who temporarily replaced him as a national security advisor, Foreign Minister Marco Rubio.

In the not too long past, Rubio was just as much a foreign policy falcon as Waltz. He also spoke hard about Russian aggression against Ukraine and supported the US external aid and even tried to incorporate a compromise in his career in his Senate's career. Now he says that the conflict in Ukraine is “not our war”, he has played a key role in the demolition of the US Agency for International Development and eagerly defended Trump's illegal deportation policy.

The symbolism of Rubio, which Waltz's job accepts, is almost too in the nose – even for this administration. It is not just an indication that Maga World will rinse the unprep for the falcons that have once dominated Republican foreign policy-and are now as close to extinction as the once difficult Caucus “Republican Free Trade”. It is also a memory that the key to staying in Trump's good grace is to simply pagate – and to implement – whatever the crazy political idea in the head of the president.

At best, Waltz was a national security advisor at the replacement level for a Republican President of the Person, who was able to imagine a President Nikki Haley or a President Ron Desantis, who created as a national security consultant. But in Trump World it is a scarlet -red letter like an appropriate foreign policy hand like an important qualification. Waltz 'mistake was to believe that our current political moment has something normal.

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