IN PROFESSIONAL wrestling,a fake form of combat mistaken for the real thing by some fans, a “carpenter” is a skilled wrestler of middling fame, and whose job is to make rising stars observe strong and intimidating.
Remember that jargon—and President Donald Trump’s long-standing worship of professional wrestling—when trying to understand the seemingly bizarre appointment of John Bolton as the third national security adviser of the Trump administration,replacing Lieutenant-General H.
R. McMaster, a tough-charging army officer and mental who rubbed his president up the improper way.
Judged as an act of high statecraft, and the appointment is one to furrow brows in capitals worldwide. Mr Bolton,a former ambassador to the United Nations under George W Bush, is a ferocious war hawk who is one of the few men in public life still willing to defend the Iraq invasion of 2003. He is an implacable ((adj.) incapable of being appeased or mitigated) critic of President Vladimir Putin and gleeful fan of the NATO military alliance. In an op-ed for The Hill in February Mr...
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Source: economist.com