УНН War ✎ The USA is lifting the pause in the exchange of intelligence information with Ukraine. This was announced in a joint statement
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You make some good points, but I don’t draw the same conclusion. You’re ascribing agency and competence to Trump, which we have no evidence for. This is just him jerking Zelenskyy around again.
Trump is playing “bully pocker”, his goal is to look good to his bases, whoever that might be at the moment. It’s the game that has worked for him his whole life, and he’s good at it.
What he doesn’t realize, is the world stage is an agreements game, based on trust and good faith, where others can join forces and render anyone at the table irrelevant. He’s trying to bully everyone into doing what he wants like he was in a single-country sandbox, by playing his strong economy and military “cards” in a carrot+stick teasing approach… without realizing those same “cards” are also based on trust and good faith. Both of which he’s been losing at an increasing rate.
I don’t think he will stop teasing and gaslighting everyone around, he doesn’t know how to do anything else. He will just run the US presidency into the ground, while everyone increasingly ignores him.
You make some good points, but I don’t draw the same conclusion. You’re ascribing agency and competence to Trump, which we have no evidence for. This is just him jerking Zelenskyy around again.
Trump is playing “bully pocker”, his goal is to look good to his bases, whoever that might be at the moment. It’s the game that has worked for him his whole life, and he’s good at it.
What he doesn’t realize, is the world stage is an agreements game, based on trust and good faith, where others can join forces and render anyone at the table irrelevant. He’s trying to bully everyone into doing what he wants like he was in a single-country sandbox, by playing his strong economy and military “cards” in a carrot+stick teasing approach… without realizing those same “cards” are also based on trust and good faith. Both of which he’s been losing at an increasing rate.
I don’t think he will stop teasing and gaslighting everyone around, he doesn’t know how to do anything else. He will just run the US presidency into the ground, while everyone increasingly ignores him.
I’m ascribing agency and competency to the military planners and to Rubio. Trump wouldn’t know which end of a lollipop to lick.
lmao