Hello All, Just put out this piece about the false hopes people are placing in the idea of a "transactional" foreign policy. Basing your security not on strong alliances but on bilateral deal-making and power wielding is normally a failure. https://open.substack.com/pub/phillipspobrien/p/the-self-defeating-machismo-of-a?r=1tgexa&utm_medium=ios
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Can't even use Hanlon's Razor on US decisions. Those people are as evil as they are incompetent.
That's why Donnie takes up the task today and tries to carry it out by threats and coercion.
Naive optimism?
That was a quick meal for the leopard!
Interesting.
Do you mean protection in exchange for money?
Like racketeers do.
Does Donald behaves this way?
Treaties are generational?
Always...