The Serious Foreign Policy Thread--Bolton Cleans House

[Dill]

Our NATO allies have protested a Russian attack on their soil.

Vladimir Putin’s Toxic Reach
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/12/opinion/russia-spy-poison-britain.html

Followed by another mysterious Russian's death in London. And Putin refuses to respond to our ally, Britain.
While Trump . . . does what?

Russian businessman with ties to Putin critic dies in London
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-uk-russian-death-20180313-story.html

All this as a chaotic White House insists it will meet with North Korea, and no word from North Korea, no apparent ground plan.

Trump agrees to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on denuclearization
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/major-announcement-coming-south-korea-north-korea-trump/story?id=53621671

Then Tillerson is fired by public Tweet.


Trump abruptly ousts Tillerson as secretary of State and nominates CIA chief to replace him
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-pol-tillerson-ousted-20180313-story.html

This shake up of an already understaffed State Department--the loss of the last person restraining Trump from canceling the Iran Deal--comes at a moment of suddenly increasing international conflict and high stakes diplomacy.
But Trump promises a "bigger shake up" of his cabinet soon, says he is finally getting the right team in place--people who don't challenge him, apparently.

I am curious to hear others' reactions to all this. Does the coming shake up mean he will get rid of Kushner, or Kelly, or Mattis? Or might that only refer to smaller fish like the embarrassing Devos?

Is this the unstable Trump randomly lashing out? How does this look to our allies, or worse, to Putin and Kim Jong Eun?

What if he finally trashes the Iran Deal. That would be a sign of "strength" to Trump supporters in the U.S., but how would the rest of the world view the chaos?  What opportunities would Russia, NK and Pakistan and China see in the diplomatic wreckage? Though trashing the deal would not be in Russia's interest, the propaganda coup would be tremendous, making Russia appear a more stable partner than the U.S. to many in the Middle East.