Scott Holstad
1 min readApr 23, 2020

Absolutely superb. I doubt I could have done a better job. I’ve been thinking and saying similar things to many for quite some time now, but I’ve been wanting more and more to write something like this. Now I can’t, because I can’t improve on what you’ve done. Remarkable and tragically true. I really never thought I would live long enough to see what has become of this once great country. My ancestors would be rolling over in their graves. My uncles would be asking why they sacrificed their lives in the great wars if this is where we would end up. We’ve accused other countries of being pariahs? It’s sociopaths like many current “leaders” who are making the US the world’s biggest pariah and it’s horrifying and humiliating and I can’t figure out what the end game is meant to be. Seems to me in past years members of both parties wouldn’t have taken kindly to anarchist haters who betray their allies and cozy up to the worst dictators in the world. I feel like I’ve been thrown down the rabbit hole…

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Scott Holstad
Scott Holstad

Written by Scott Holstad

Polymath. Writer. Analyst. Researcher. Geopolitics. E/SE Asia. Historian. Antifascist. 40+ Books. Pearson. HarperCollins. AAN; RUSI; AOC. 22K LI Followers

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