1/ Last month I told a room of Baltic intelligence officers and diplomats that Donald Trump is an asset of Russian intelligence. Not one of them blinked. "Of course," they said. Ho hum. But in America, saying it out loud is still taboo. Why? 🧵
@Brad_Setser Trump 2 has nothing to celebrate as it doesn't address the core trade imbalance mostly caused by China, yet instead, messes up trade relation with allies.
Balding lost his intellectual honesty due to strong ideological bias, and I've lost interest of his view a few years ago.