Donald Trump wasn't lying when he promised to rule with force. He's appointed the most ruthlesshardline peopleofficials to conduct deportation schemes and similarly hawkish politicians to run foreign relations. The US is about to lose any semblance of decency and cuation as Trump targets immigrants at home and Palestiniansthe most vulnerable abroad.

If anyone expected Trump to keep war hawks and neocons out of his new government, they would be disappointed. With Mike Waltz as his national security advisor, Marco Rubio as secretary of state, and Elise Stefanik as UN Ambassador, Americans can expect the conflicts in the Middle East to continue over the next four years.