Are We Now, At Last, Well and Truly Fucked?

Thursday, H.R. McMaster was dismissed as Li'l Donnie Trump's National Security Advisor and replaced him with John Bolton.


Which leads us to this question:  Are we now, at last, well and truly fucked?


Consider this:   we have in Li'l Donnie Trump an "alleged president" with zero patience for diplomacy and multi-national cooperation with other nations.


Last week, Li'l Donnie Trump replaced Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State with Mike Pompeo, a man with zero patience for diplomacy and multi-national cooperation with other nations.


And now, Li'l Donnie Trump wants his National Security Advisor to be John Bolton, a man with zero patience for diplomacy and multi-national cooperation with other nations.


As an Army lieutenant general, H.R McMaster hardly fit the old of a soft hearted mulinationlist but by all reports, was a voice of a caution against Trump's small minded America First myopic desires to move away from multi-national cooperation.


Whatever his faults as Secretary of State (and by all accounts, there were many), Rex Tillerson still favored a more pragmatic diplomacy as opposed to Li'l Donnie's more grandiose and bellicose colorful threats.  


Both McMaster and Tillerson reportedly were in favor of finding ways to maintain the Iran nuclear treaty, a deal that Trump has frequently maligned throughout his campaign and his "presidency". In Pompeo and Bolton, he has two people who are in favor of walking away from the deal.


Bolton, in particular, has been a frequent proponent of using American military might first and foremost  as opposed to any diplomatic solutions. "Shoot first and ask questions later" is giving Bolton too much credit. More like "shoot first and who the fuck needs questions?" 


Specifically, Bolton has written op-ed pieces espousing solutions to North Korea and Iran that can be summed up in one word: Invade!


If we had any hope that there were grown ups in Trump's White House trying to keep in check Li'l Donnie's worst impulses, that hope is gone. In Pompeo and now Bolton, we have people who only echo and reinforce Li'l Donnie's worst impulses. 


Which leads us once more to this question:  Are we now, at last, well and truly fucked?