This guy has made so many clever tweets against his fellow leftists, he is known as a leftist heretic in the mold of a Glen Greenwald or Matt Taibbi. He’s always calling the left out on their many and various hypocrisies. He and others like him are some of the few leftists I have any respect for despite our political differences on some issues, as they are the only ones on the left still grounded in reality.
I find him interesting I never considered the foreign policy theory before though maybe tenuous.
In another tweet he says this:
@mtracey
Have you noticed the same people passionately demanding gun control are also passionately demanding that giant amounts of uncontrollable, untraceable guns be indiscriminately dumped into Eastern Europe