Sound analysis all around. Nothing insightful to add besides the fact that this breach can hardly be papered over by electing a sane president for a term or two. Even with Biden there was some unease with allies after Trump term 1. We could elect the second coming of George C. Marshal, I doubt any nation would expect continuity after his second term.
I don't know. Even though I've written otherwise, I go back and forth on that. The United States is still, despite everything, a massive power, and in international relations, rows like this can fade pretty quickly. Just look at the history of France and NATO.
I mean, at the end, yeah, but generally, I think he's regarded as a rational actor who used unhinged threats and expansive expeditionary use of the Libyan military as a way of generating deterrence
Sound analysis all around. Nothing insightful to add besides the fact that this breach can hardly be papered over by electing a sane president for a term or two. Even with Biden there was some unease with allies after Trump term 1. We could elect the second coming of George C. Marshal, I doubt any nation would expect continuity after his second term.
I don't know. Even though I've written otherwise, I go back and forth on that. The United States is still, despite everything, a massive power, and in international relations, rows like this can fade pretty quickly. Just look at the history of France and NATO.
After the national reconciliation no more Twitter for heads of departments and states. Etc.
I’m curious why you say Gaddafi wasn’t genuinely insane, he didn’t start off as so but probably was by the last decade of his life
I mean, at the end, yeah, but generally, I think he's regarded as a rational actor who used unhinged threats and expansive expeditionary use of the Libyan military as a way of generating deterrence
and to think, I used to invoke Nixon as my go to for the madman theory. what a naive child I was
I think you need to cite a realhead madman like Francisco Solano López tbh