I remember this guy, he's pop up on the talking head circuit...
The kill it before it got bigger really wasn't a universal application... Is PRC still around?
Maybe it applied to the lesser players like Iraq and such...
Take known nuke nations out of play...
Is Iran still full of Mahdi Death Cult theocrats? Is Cuba still communist?
Frack Yugoslavia, frack Ukraine...how about Iran, Cuba & Venezuela get spanked?
Can't make blanket statements that this is universal policy...it isn't consistent.
But it underscores one clear and undeniable point - when GHW Bush betrayed the Reagan Revolution the "NeoCon" influence in Pentagon and Foreign Affairs blossomed...as did the rest of the DeepState players. And not only is their policy inconsistent and often hypocritical, it often creates more problems than it solves... But the US is hardly alone in the world in this. China is a straight-up bully, ask their neighbors (other than Russia, lol)... Russia, ask Syrian Baathists and Azerbaijan how their security guarantees are...
Europe, ha, well Europe...such a mess...