Archived Newt Gingrich is not sure he would help Estonia against a Russian invasion (m.youtube.com)
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Archived Newt Gingrich is not sure he would help Estonia against a Russian invasion (m.youtube.com)
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[–] LiberatedDeathStar 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago (edited ago)
Exactly. Newt is smart because he's actually considering what that hotbed could actually cause. A bunch of people in the comments mention that it's bad that we have politicians questioning our alliances, but I think Putin would be much more cautious if he knew people like Newt were in charge, who are smart enough to understand the implications of a conflict and smart enough to calculate whether or not nuclear conflict is worth it.
Then again, people like Newt would probably be smart enough to work with Putin in a way where he isn't backed into a corner, and wouldn't feel the need to lash out. As he's cautious with nuclear warfare here, he probably wouldn't risk it in other places, brashly putting ourselves in other such conflicts. The man is smart as hell, and would probably be one of the best people we in the US could put in charge of our foreign policy and diplomacy.
[–] Joe_McCarthy [S] 1 point 1 point 2 points (+2|-1) ago (edited ago)
I wouldn't be surprised if Gingrich is the next Secretary of State, actually.
[–] LiberatedDeathStar 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
He should be. He's sly, smart, and crafty, everything I would want in a Secretary of State. He has also distanced himself from the globalists quite strongly over the past two decades, starting way before most anti-globalists on it. He realized his mistake there right after NAFTA, and right after he became Roman Catholic.
He allied with Trump fairly early on as well, which makes him in a great position to get a nice position. As he had been going towards that sort of ideology over the past many years, he knew when to seize an opportunity early.