I'll admit I was being pretty flippant when I wrote this comment. But I'm thinking particularly about a difference between say Hillary and Trump is that Hillary is more of a hawk. It's hard to say what would happen because events are so contingent, but I think if you add even more US hawkishness to the e.g. the current events in Ukraine, then it's not outside the realm of possibility things could spiral out of control.
Russia invading a few years early for example could have led to a totally different NATO calculus, maybe back then NATO would have estimated Russia is not ready for a war and went all in.
Trump was the only US president in living memory not to start a new war.
He even tried to end a couple, in Syria (why are we at war in Syria?), in Afghanistan and he tried to withdraw US troops from Germany to tremendous applause from the Germans.
I'll admit I was being pretty flippant when I wrote this comment. But I'm thinking particularly about a difference between say Hillary and Trump is that Hillary is more of a hawk. It's hard to say what would happen because events are so contingent, but I think if you add even more US hawkishness to the e.g. the current events in Ukraine, then it's not outside the realm of possibility things could spiral out of control.
Russia invading a few years early for example could have led to a totally different NATO calculus, maybe back then NATO would have estimated Russia is not ready for a war and went all in.
Trump was the only US president in living memory not to start a new war.
He even tried to end a couple, in Syria (why are we at war in Syria?), in Afghanistan and he tried to withdraw US troops from Germany to tremendous applause from the Germans.