As Thursday's resignation of widely-respected US Secretary of Defense James Mattis sends shockwaves throughout the global military community, government officials and political experts from around the world are voicing concern about an increasingly reckless commander-in-chief.
Even measured against the standards of US President Donald Trump's first two years, it has been a turbulent week in DC, as lawmakers, pundits and experts scramble to find an underlying pattern to the consistently off-the-cuff foreign policy moves made by the current White House.
“I don't see any chance for Trump resigning, unless there were some impeachment proceedings, the way Richard Nixon did when he resigned,” noted executive director of the Washington office of the International Institute for Strategic Studies Mark Fitzpatrick, cited by Dw.com.
“Resigning would be an admission of defeat for a man who insists on winning, winning, winning,” Fitzpatrick remarked, adding, “I don't think we can expect a Trump resignation as a solution to the growing concerns people have.”
Mattis, viewed as one of the last holdouts to Trump's ‘yes-men' cabinet, was seen as an anchor slowing down what are viewed as increasingly impetuous moves by the US president, typically by tweet and often in the early hours of the morning, according to CNN.
World leaders new to the game, including Trump — a reality-television and beauty-pageant producer with no political experience —…
