Glenn Greenwald

There's going to be massive consequences in terms of having entire regions of the world hate the United States, view us as this rogue nation.

And you can say, I don't really care about that.

But that's what opens up China to all of this influence.

That's why China has so much influence, because so many countries have concluded the United States is this bully.

They use his military force.

All of this has major implications.

The reason why we get attacked by the Middle East, the reason that there are a lot of people who hate us in the Middle East is because this is the behavior we've been engaging in for the Middle East for decades.

We've been overthrowing their governments, opposing the catership on them, taking their oil, telling them that they have no rights.

Yes, they can't fight us in the sense that they have a military equal to ours, but there's all kinds of repercussions from that.

The CIA has a term for that.

It's called blowback.

That if you just go around the world bullying other countries and taking things that you want, there's going to be a lot of ramifications that you have to take into consideration that are going to come back to say nothing of the cost of who's going to fight all these words that Trump is is vowing and threatening.

Right.

You can always avoid war as long as the other side just submits and does everything that you tell them to do.

The problem is that very often they don't do that.

And many of the worst wars have happened not because leaders wanted wars, but because once you start threatening military conflict, you have military buildup, tensions increase, you have escalation, you have miscommunication.

All these things can happen in a very unintended way.

This is a very dangerous game to be playing.

Like, yes, I do believe that Donald Trump doesn't want to fall into some major quagmire in war.

The problem is, is that the policies that he's pursuing are very likely to lead to that.