Thanks for this thought provoking article.
My quick responses.
1. I believe it is defense. To provoke any kind of war would be destructive, unproductive for all involved.
2. A & B can both be true.
3. Some degree of lies. All disasters?
4. Obama to Trump and Trump to Biden -- each represented two different foreign policies.
5. Each party has recently had all three branches or at least two and each has used it to make radical changes to the other party's policies. The rich and powerful tend to always benefit no matter what. That is the nature of being rich and powerful.
6. I've never made that accusation.
7. Murdering is too strong a description. More like negligent homicide.
8. No one believes this statement in full.
9. Who believes this?
10. A lot closer to home ... means home?