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Trump wanted to destroy NATO and European unity, he was doing Putin's job for him.
Destroy it by pressuring its members to pay 2% GDP? Or what are you referencing? And how does sending Javelins to Ukraine or blocking Nordstream 2 help Putin?
Saying that you have probability x of nuclear war every year and so probability (1-x)^n of no nuclear war in n years assumes independence. In fact, if you don't have nuclear war on year 1, I would assume that the reasons for that lead to inferences and correlations that would affect the probability of nuclear war on year 2, possibly making it lower.
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Destroy it by pressuring its members to pay 2% GDP? Or what are you referencing? And how does sending Javelins to Ukraine or blocking Nordstream 2 help Putin?
Trump tried to prevent military aid to Ukraine; dunno how you give him credit for "sending Javelins..."
Second, that aid was never held up and is separate from the Javelins that were sent anyway.
What other President sent Ukraine weapons (not blankets) before this fiasco?
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Destroy it by pressuring its members to pay 2% GDP? Or what are you referencing? And how does sending Javelins to Ukraine or blocking Nordstream 2 help Putin?
What did the USA have to do with blocking Nordstream 2? Germany stopped certification, no the USA.
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/us-sancti...
> Putin does not roll a dice every morning and launches a nuclear missile if a six shows up. You wish! The problem here is that Putin is not rational.
This makes me chuckle. The Bad Orange Man played the "insane king" role really, really well. Everyone was on their best behaviour until he left office. Peace talks in the Middle East progressed. Russia stayed in their borders. North Korea huffed and puffed and ultimately did nothing. Trade with China became more favorable to the US. It's almost like his foreign policy was effective. To your point: Putin isn't nuts. H…
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So? Whoever is insaner wins? Nah, remind Putin that we all saw how much the russian army sucks and in case of nuclear war the US still wins after they get out of their bunkers.
with the greatest respect, this is the greatest evidence of insanity I’ve seen in this thread…
Do you think Putin is a genious and it didn't cross other USSR leaders minds the same idea -- "surely, the USA would not use nukes again us if we used just a few nukes against a weaker NATO member"?
The only sane answer is to absolutely make sure the other guy knows you're going to use nukes the second they use them.
Macron's retort to Putin needs to be shouted from the rooftops -- we also have nukes, you're not that special.
> Putin does not roll a dice every morning and launches a nuclear missile if a six shows up. You wish! The problem here is that Putin is not rational.
This makes me chuckle. The Bad Orange Man played the "insane king" role really, really well. Everyone was on their best behaviour until he left office. Peace talks in the Middle East progressed. Russia stayed in their borders. North Korea huffed and puffed and ultimately did nothing. Trade with China became more favorable to the US. It's almost like his foreign policy was effective. To your point: Putin isn't nuts. H…
It is entirely plausible that Darwinian selection pressures rewarded not just those who cynically postured as madmen, but those who actually were madmen (within some bound of Minimum Viable Rationality). Such madness only has to beat the average; unlike the MAD dynamics of nuclear weapons, during most of evolutionary history, a catastrophic error of genuine madness didn't result in destruction of the entire species.
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Trump wanted to destroy NATO and European unity, he was doing Putin's job for him.
He wanted them to pay their fair share. They wanted the US to foot their security bill which he balked at. Now we see Germany at least say they will up their contribution and rebuild their military in order to be better prepared. That’s pretty much in line with what he asked from them.
“Yeah, the second term,” Trump had said. “We’ll do it in the second term.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/07/13/book-exce...
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This makes me chuckle. The Bad Orange Man played the "insane king" role really, really well. Everyone was on their best behaviour until he left office. Peace talks in the Middle East progressed. Russia stayed in their borders. North Korea huffed and puffed and ultimately did nothing. Trade with China became more favorable to the US. It's almost like his foreign policy was effective. To your point: Putin isn't nuts. H…
Trump wanted to destroy NATO and European unity, he was doing Putin's job for him.
[1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=M5MJEMHZZsI
(Disclaimer: I agree that orange man bad)
> Putin does not roll a dice every morning and launches a nuclear missile if a six shows up. You wish! The problem here is that Putin is not rational.
"There is no greater danger than underestimating your opponent." - Lao Tzu