Lawrence Freedman, military historian and professor emeritus of war studies at King’s College London, is in Washington this week where his efforts to gain an understanding of the Trump Administration’s policies on Russia and Iran failed because he couldn’t find anyone to talk to. There’s no professional staff to speak to at either the National Security Council or the State Department and the civilian part of the Pentagon has been purged, he writes in a commentary posted on March 29.
Trump “Trump appears to inhabit an alternative reality which he shares regularly on Truth Social or whenever a reporter gets a microphone close to his mouth, which is quite often. His utterances have become increasingly incoherent, with contradictory statements following quickly one after the other, and frankly delusional claims,” he writes.
