In ignoring voters and fueling war, Trump and Harris share the same ticket

While both sides play up their differences, Republicans and Democrats are unified in fueling a 'planet of war.'

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In a rambling acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, Donald Trump attempted to draw a contrast with his Democratic rivals.

“Our opponents inherited a world at peace and turned it into a planet of war,” Trump said. “...War is now raging in Europe and the Middle East, a growing specter of conflict hangs over Taiwan, Korea, the Philippines, and all of Asia, and our planet is teetering on the edge of World War III.”

In the view of veteran New York Times correspondent David E. Sanger, Trump made a “disingenuous argument at best.” After all, “[t]here was a low-level war bubbling in Ukraine throughout Mr. Trump’s term; he simply chose to pay little attention.” Yet Sanger conceded that Trump was not entirely off the mark. Ahead of the November election, he wrote, “the Democratic nominee will have to explain how [they] will manage a world that is clearly far more dangerous today than four years ago.” Come January, the next president “will inherit confrontations with America’s nuclear rivals China and Russia, cold wars that are one mistake away from turning hot.”

Trump was indeed being disingenuous, but not for the reason that Sanger identified. When it comes to making the world more dangerous, Trump and his Democratic successors have pursued converging and in some cases identical policies – a point of unity that neither side ever acknowledges.