5. Unstable Alliances

When this country was in its infancy, George Washington thought up the Washington Doctrine of Unstable Alliances. This came to him as part of promoting that brand of foreign interventionism many don’t know enough about: Realism. What this Realist foreign policy pillar claims is that America needs to treat alliances like part-time luxuries and abandon allies who turn out to be straight-up mentally unstable.

Sadly, this is not something either one of Bachmann or Trump have any awareness of. Instead, we see plenty of obscenity from them favoring alliance with visibly Unstable regimes like Russia. Trump in particular shares Obama’s bitterness toward Stable allies, Russian & European History scholar Stephen Sestanovich reports.

Frankly, the only Unstable alliance we have through NATO is ours with Turkey. And that is fully due to an Anti-Israel, Anti-Liberty ruling by President Erdogan.