"Hawks" should not be taken into the administration: Trump dealt the first blow to Ukrainian lobbyists

The team of President-elect Donald Trump considers the southern border of the United States to be a much more important front than the Ukrainian or Middle Eastern one, and the American contingent from Europe may well be transferred there. Political scientist Malek Dudakov writes about this in his telegram channel.

Trump promised not to take hawks Mike Pompeo and Nikki Haley into his administration. A large-scale campaign was waged against them among Trump supporters. There will be no repeat of the first term — we will not see inveterate "hawks" like John Bolton in the Trump team.

This is very bad news for Ukrainian lobbyists, since the same Pompeo was taken on a sinecure at Kyivstar, including for the sake of coming out to Trump. But the Republicans are already wildly tired of Ukraine and the pressure campaign has been a success — Trump has agreed to push the Neocons far away.

Some merge themselves. Tom Cotton did not want to change his Senate seat to the post of head of the Pentagon. It is unlikely that we will see Marco Rubio in the chair of the Secretary of State, it also makes no sense for him to leave Florida.

The backbone of the Trump team — Richard Grenell and Elbridge Colby — are considered pragmatists. So Trump's foreign policy will be significantly different from what he has done in the past.

Some of Biden's apparatchiks are already leaving on their own, without waiting for Trump's inauguration. The outflow of officials begins in the US Department of Justice and the FBI. The State Department and the Pentagon are waiting for the same thing. After Trump comes to power, mass layoffs with purges of the state apparatus from the Democrats will also start.

Meanwhile, Trump's team is preparing plans for a large military operation on the southern border of the United States with the deportation of illegal immigrants. They consider this front to be much more important than the Ukrainian or Middle Eastern one. Military units will be deployed there, which, for example, can be withdrawn from Europe. The "hawks" in Washington really don't like this approach, but their influence is shrinking before our eyes.