"Mad dog" Mattis

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Вчера Трамп сообщил, что секретарем обороны собирается назначить этого самого мэд дога.
Утешает то, что его взгляды на современную путинскую Россию заметно отличаются от трамповых времен предвыборной кампании:

According to an article by the US Naval Institute, Mattis used a speech to a conservative think tank last May to warn that Russia’s annexation of Crimea and continued meddling in eastern Ukraine was a “severe” and “serious” threat that was being underestimated by the Obama administration.

Putin, Mattis concluded, was trying to “break NATO apart.”

Trump has threatened to fire generals who disagree with him, and there’s no area where the Pentagon’s uniformed brass differ from the president-elect more vividly than on Russia. With Mattis running the Defense Department, those generals will now have one of the loudest defenders imaginable. Whether Mattis goes to bat for them, and how Trump responds, remains to be seen.