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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsReturn of the Madman Theory
Trumps foreign policy is so erratic and unpredictable, it might just make the world more stablefor a very short time.
President Donald Trumps most nerve-racking traithis unhinged impulsiveness, driven more by random stimuli and shifts in mood than by careful study or long-held principlesmight be having an oddly stabilizing influence in the worlds crisis-strewn regions, at least for a little while.
Consider what Richard Nixon called the Madman Theory. In the early years of his presidency, he told his national security adviser, Henry Kissinger, to warn the North Vietnamese that Nixon was crazy. Nixon is obsessed with Communism, Kissinger was supposed to say. He cant be restrained when hes angry, and for Gods sake, he has his hand on the nuclear button. In two days time, Nixon predicted, Ho Chi Minh will be begging for peace.
The ploy didnt work, in part because the North Vietnamese didnt believe it. Whatever the many other eccentricities that Nixon had displayed in a quarter-century of public life, he wasnt a madman, at least not in that way....
President Donald Trumps most nerve-racking traithis unhinged impulsiveness, driven more by random stimuli and shifts in mood than by careful study or long-held principlesmight be having an oddly stabilizing influence in the worlds crisis-strewn regions, at least for a little while.
Consider what Richard Nixon called the Madman Theory. In the early years of his presidency, he told his national security adviser, Henry Kissinger, to warn the North Vietnamese that Nixon was crazy. Nixon is obsessed with Communism, Kissinger was supposed to say. He cant be restrained when hes angry, and for Gods sake, he has his hand on the nuclear button. In two days time, Nixon predicted, Ho Chi Minh will be begging for peace.
The ploy didnt work, in part because the North Vietnamese didnt believe it. Whatever the many other eccentricities that Nixon had displayed in a quarter-century of public life, he wasnt a madman, at least not in that way....
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/2017/04/trump_is_inadvertently_putting_nixon_s_madman_theory_to_the_test.html
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Return of the Madman Theory (Original Post)
mia
Apr 2017
OP
Too late, worldwide thermonuclear war starting within days in NK by Trump.
Eliot Rosewater
Apr 2017
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Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)1. Too late, worldwide thermonuclear war starting within days in NK by Trump.
Fucking 3rd party voters, FUCK
unblock
(52,253 posts)2. donnie's more like the guy who keeps getting caught bluffing yet is convinced he's believable.
he's all flash and zero follow-through.
you just can't cash the checks his big mouth writes.
of course, the real problem, is that north korea has been steeped in saber-rattling and nuclear brinksmanship for far, far longer than donnie has.
donnie is a rank amateur.
most outcomes are horrible, particularly for the people of both north and south korea but not just them.
and in the end, the world will blame not just donnie, but the whole of the united states.
mia
(8,361 posts)3. He's playing with bombs as if they're tokens from a board game.
He's writing the rules as he goes along and all he cares about is that his little, plastic, trump-tower token wins the game.