Simply not true. Trump has said only that (a) he will end the war in the first 2

Simply not true. Trump has said only that (a) he will end the war in the first 24 hours of ascending to the presidency (b) we are making a bad use of funds because of it (c) and europe should be paying the vast majority, not the USA.

Trump always and everywhere keeps his negotiation position open. He does not make the public or his administration comfortable with laying down policy that they can manipulate. Instead, he seeks to establish personal relations with other heads of state and to use threats to drive the opposition party into a settlement.

I can’t figure out for the life of my why, given trump wrote a book about it, people don’t grasp what trump is always and everywhere up to. (a) rally the base (b) preserve opportunity for one on one negotiations (c) pressure the administration to think creatively linstead of ‘traditionally’, (d) bait the opposition into educating the public when they attack him.

I have no idea why people don’t grasp this strategy other than that they’ve never been in a position of power competing with others around the world who are often corrupt or full of malincentives.

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