How Josh Hawley and Eric Schmitt learned to stop worrying and love regime change

By: Jason Hancock

Outlets: Missouri Independent

Published: March 9, 2026

Words: 568

Last Updated: 1 day, 4 hours ago

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There is a familiar Washington magic trick, and Missouri’s U.S. senators perform it with unusual confidence: Spend years denouncing the bipartisan cult of stupid wars, then salute smartly when your own president lights the fuse.

Josh Hawley and Eric Schmitt have both marketed themselves as realists, skeptics of permanent intervention and the old foreign-policy catechism. Hawley said in 2019 that the point of American foreign policy is “not to remake the world,” and in …

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