trump does have a strategy. his strategy is simply to immortalize himself, self-aggrandizement, and self-enrichment... he and his family filthy rich privately, and a cult of personality publicly. every one of his actions is aimed at manipulating the public's attention toward something, away from something, all with the goal of bringing glory to himself. shrouds of his face drape government buildings, the ballroom, the arch, the gold paint all over the white house, putting his face on passports, money, his signature on government funds out to the less fortunate... all hail Caesar! clearly the war in Iran did not get him what he wanted, so he tires of it... his rantings about the peace president did not get him the notoriety he wanted, so pivot to declaring war on Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, threatening allies like Greenland Oman, etc. he so wants to be seen as rich, smart, brilliant, a ladies man, powerful, feared... he now uses the US as his stand-in stunt double.. throwing his ample weight around NATO, and now in Asia, threatening those terrible aggressors like New Zealand while losing face in China, Iran, and being BFF with Putin. like Netanyahu, he has no plans for leaving office, just plans to ensure he can stay there... we are now "the baddies". most Americans are angry and embarrassed, others apparently like looking like an odd mix of a bully and a clown. trump is owned by the oil companies and is moving through the country giving away taxpayer money to kill off renewable energy projects that would save Americans bunches of money. Renewables are taking about 0.5 BB dollars a day from the oil companies and that number is growing. trump has decided to side with the oil companies over his own voter base. I see column after column talking about how they have no plan, they dont know what they are doing, etc. they know exactly what they are doing, people are too horrified by the implications to admit it, his followers are too blinded to see it, and the press is too cowed to report it. not to sound too much like a cheerleader, but thank you, and all the independent commentators who keep speaking out. the rest of us should be forwarding your columns to everyone we know...
Ha, in the world of literary writing, this is called sentimentality: "In each case the assertion comes first and the justification is assembled afterward, or never, and we are asked, each time, to supply the coherence ourselves, to assume that beneath the improvisation sits a design we simply cannot see." It's the feeling after you have just read a book and instead of feeling strengthened, feel diminished, because you had to write the ending yourself. It is commonplace. If you look at it more closely, all you see is fog.
Trump has no “strategy” other than exploiting any opportunity for self-glorification and gain, without concern for either consequences or coherence with past or future actions. His posts and ramblings tell us what occupies his thoughts these days: hate of anyone who fails to kiss his ring, vengeance for anyone who he feels crossed him, and overseeing grandiose buildings and monuments in D.C. that will forever attest to his glory.
Like others before and like him, Trump and his loyalists remind us daily that the dark side of human nature has seductive power to bring chaos, destruction and pain to all within the circle of impact.
"Madman strategy" only works as a strategy if the individual executing it actually has an end goal that each so-called unpredictable shift moves the conflict towards. The "unpredictable" must in fact only be unpredictable to the enemy; to the actor each step must be eminently predictable and in fact the only logical step towards the goal. There is no evidence of that here.
I just watched a video interview with the woman who Trump raped when she was 13. It's pretty awful, but what struck me were some of the observations that she made about his character and behavior. We are seeing exactly what she described on a daily basis.
What I assume (and you know where ASSume gets you) is that Trump has no strategy.
Even Kissinger's unpredictable strategy is a form of strategy, but Trump doesn't have it.
This regime has no strategy: he has no plan, no policy, no scheme. None.
He. Has. No. Strategy.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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trump does have a strategy. his strategy is simply to immortalize himself, self-aggrandizement, and self-enrichment... he and his family filthy rich privately, and a cult of personality publicly. every one of his actions is aimed at manipulating the public's attention toward something, away from something, all with the goal of bringing glory to himself. shrouds of his face drape government buildings, the ballroom, the arch, the gold paint all over the white house, putting his face on passports, money, his signature on government funds out to the less fortunate... all hail Caesar! clearly the war in Iran did not get him what he wanted, so he tires of it... his rantings about the peace president did not get him the notoriety he wanted, so pivot to declaring war on Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, threatening allies like Greenland Oman, etc. he so wants to be seen as rich, smart, brilliant, a ladies man, powerful, feared... he now uses the US as his stand-in stunt double.. throwing his ample weight around NATO, and now in Asia, threatening those terrible aggressors like New Zealand while losing face in China, Iran, and being BFF with Putin. like Netanyahu, he has no plans for leaving office, just plans to ensure he can stay there... we are now "the baddies". most Americans are angry and embarrassed, others apparently like looking like an odd mix of a bully and a clown. trump is owned by the oil companies and is moving through the country giving away taxpayer money to kill off renewable energy projects that would save Americans bunches of money. Renewables are taking about 0.5 BB dollars a day from the oil companies and that number is growing. trump has decided to side with the oil companies over his own voter base. I see column after column talking about how they have no plan, they dont know what they are doing, etc. they know exactly what they are doing, people are too horrified by the implications to admit it, his followers are too blinded to see it, and the press is too cowed to report it. not to sound too much like a cheerleader, but thank you, and all the independent commentators who keep speaking out. the rest of us should be forwarding your columns to everyone we know...
Ha, in the world of literary writing, this is called sentimentality: "In each case the assertion comes first and the justification is assembled afterward, or never, and we are asked, each time, to supply the coherence ourselves, to assume that beneath the improvisation sits a design we simply cannot see." It's the feeling after you have just read a book and instead of feeling strengthened, feel diminished, because you had to write the ending yourself. It is commonplace. If you look at it more closely, all you see is fog.
Trump has no “strategy” other than exploiting any opportunity for self-glorification and gain, without concern for either consequences or coherence with past or future actions. His posts and ramblings tell us what occupies his thoughts these days: hate of anyone who fails to kiss his ring, vengeance for anyone who he feels crossed him, and overseeing grandiose buildings and monuments in D.C. that will forever attest to his glory.
Like others before and like him, Trump and his loyalists remind us daily that the dark side of human nature has seductive power to bring chaos, destruction and pain to all within the circle of impact.
"Madman strategy" only works as a strategy if the individual executing it actually has an end goal that each so-called unpredictable shift moves the conflict towards. The "unpredictable" must in fact only be unpredictable to the enemy; to the actor each step must be eminently predictable and in fact the only logical step towards the goal. There is no evidence of that here.
I just watched a video interview with the woman who Trump raped when she was 13. It's pretty awful, but what struck me were some of the observations that she made about his character and behavior. We are seeing exactly what she described on a daily basis.
What a Dumbo.