The man who will make America great again seems to have some pretty weird ideas about how to do that internationally.

In an interview with the New York Times, Donald Trump openly stated,

he might let Russia march right into the Baltic republics in spite of NATO,

explained that Turkey's Islamist would-be dictator, or except Taip Erdogan,

was doing a wonderful job of locking down his country and attacked America in the process of doing both.

So Republicans basically just nominated Howard's Inn, which is awesome.

First, the New York Times asked Trump if he would defend NATO allies if they were attacked by Russia.

He answered, he would, quote, decide to come to their aid only after reviewing if those nations have fulfilled their obligations to us.

If they fulfill their obligations to us, the answer is yes. This, of course, destroys NATO. The whole purpose of NATO is deterrence. If you attack one of us, you attack all of us. Even if Trump were to consider whether to defend Estonia, Latvia, or Lithuania, or for that matter, Poland or the Czech Republic, on a case-by-case basis, you don't say that out loud unless you're either a dummy or you're

unworthy about signaling to the Russians. They can invade other nations with impunity.

Ed Morrissey of Hader, who's definitely not prone to exaggeration. Ed writes, quote,

this kind of talk from prospective commanders-in-chief is no mere academic or political exercise.

It's actively dangerous. But don't worry, the insanity didn't stop there.

Turkish thug Erdogan has now purged tens of thousands of people from positions of power and influence in Turkey,

following a failed coup that very well could have just been a Reichstag fire event.

Just hours ago, Turkey suspended the European Convention on Human Rights in their country

so they could pursue Erdogan's enemies with alacrity.

Asked about pressuring Turkey to abide by their human rights commitments, Trump said, quote, I don't think we have a right to lecture. Trump even cheered Erdogan, quote, the coup never even took place. The coup was not successful. And based on the fact, and I give him great credit to him for being able to turn that around, I do give great credit to him for turning it around. Then he said, quote, I think right in this direct transcript, guys, I think right now when it comes to civil liberties, our country has a lot of problems, and I think it's very hard for us to get involved in other countries when we don't know what we are doing and we can't see straight in our own country. We have tremendous problems when you have policemen being shot in the streets, when you have riots, when you have Ferguson, when you have Baltimore, when you have all of the things that are happening in this country, we have other problems, and I think that we have to focus on those problems. When the world looks at how bad the United States is, and then we go and talk about civil liberties, I don't think we're a good messenger. I don't know that we have a right to lecture. just look about what's happening with our country how are we going to lecture when people shooting policemen in cold blood? How are we going to lecture when you see the riots and the horror going on in our own country? We have so many difficulties in our country right now that I don't think should be. And there may be a time when we can get much more aggressive on that subject. And it would be a wonderful thing to be more aggressive. We're not in a position to be more aggressive, we have to fix our own mess. This is discombobulated, but it's also despicable.

It's right in line with Russia's perspective, of course, which is totally unsurprising, given the Trump campaign's decision to gut anti-Pooten language in defense of Ukraine from the RNC platform and Trump's campaign manager, Paul Manafort's super close relationship with the Putin regime.

More importantly, this is anti-American crap. Bad things happen in America. But those aren't

government policy. Equating America with Turkey cracking down on dissidents is disgusting.

But Trump isn't just an isolationist. He's a Ron Paul isolationist, a devotee of the notion

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