Hillary Clinton warns Trump 'stupidity' will leave US 'feeble and friendless'

[BeyondGeography]

Hillary Clinton on Friday called the Trump administration’s approach to governing both dumb and dangerous in an essay excoriating the Signal chat scandal and the Elon Musk-led mission to slash the federal workforce, and concluding that Trump would make the US “feeble and friendless”.

…“In a dangerous and complex world, it’s not enough to be strong. You must also be smart. As secretary of state during the Obama administration, I argued for smart power, integrating the hard power of our military with the soft power of our diplomacy, development assistance, economic might and cultural influence,” she wrote.

“None of those tools can do the job alone. Together, they make America a superpower. The Trump approach is dumb power. Instead of a strong America using all our strengths to lead the world and confront our adversaries, Mr Trump’s America will be increasingly blind and blundering, feeble and friendless.”

…Clinton concluded that the administration appeared not to know its way, was putting the US in danger and mused that perhaps Trump “is in way over his head…If there’s a grand strategy at work here, I don’t know what it is … He’s gambling with the national security of the United States. If this continues, a group chat foul will be the least of our concerns, and all the fist and flag emojis in the world won’t save us,” she said.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/28/hillary-clinton-trump-stupidity?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

(I know there are other threads on this; just couldn’t resist the headline. Plus the risks that accompany an isolated America can’t be emphasized enough and all Democrats should take Secretary Clinton’s words and run with them.)

[Autumn]

1. Yeah. we know that. nt

[0rganism]

2. Well that's Putin's goal, right?

Seems like he's making the plays and calling the shots so far. A pinch of bluster here, a handful of collusion there, a cup of human rights violations stirred in, perfecting a recipe for national humiliation and self-alienation.