Subject: Re: Philip Roth on Trump
Isolationists are the last thing we need right now. Because it worked out so well the last time we did that (1939-41).

Okay. Should US troops be fighting in the Ukraine right now? If the answer is 'no', does that count as isolationism?

I wish Marcos would ask us for help with China. The Philippines aren't required to deal with this alone.

He has, and they aren't:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world...

This btw is one of the few things Biden's actually accomplished. Now if only he'd do something about the Navy while he was at it...

The US has secured access to four additional military bases in the Philippines - a key bit of real estate which would offer a front row seat to monitor the Chinese in the South China Sea and around Taiwan.

With the deal, Washington has stitched the gap in the arc of US alliances stretching from South Korea and Japan in the north to Australia in the south.
The missing link had been the Philippines, which borders two of the biggest potential flashpoints - Taiwan and the South China Sea.
The deal, which in part reverses the US' departure from their former colony more than 30 years ago, is no small matter.