TRUMPIAN REALITY VS WELL INTENTIONED NAIVETY Do you think the Russians negotiate

TRUMPIAN REALITY VS WELL INTENTIONED NAIVETY
Do you think the Russians negotiate in good faith? The Chinese? Even the Europeans? I mean, I study this nonsense for a living. When the moral high ground fails, and it has with all three, then you are forced into pragmatism. And that’s what Trump is doing. He’s applying the “Art of the Deal” ( a book he wrote about his method years ago) to world politics and it turns out to be extremely effective.

IMO you are making a common mistake which is to extend your moral compass beyond the scale of it’s applicability. Our previous ‘moral’ presidents failed. They spent over thirty years failing. Trump is achieving in months what they failed at for decades. And he has little choice.

It’s normal behavior for people like you with limited world experience, just as it’s normal for young women to expect social behavior at political and economic scale.

For those of us who have run companies around the world, dealt with corruption around the world, dealt with cultural differences around the world, dealt with courts around the world, and in my case, worked in both business, Justice and Intelligence, then you are deprived of the moral naivety of the average and below average American.

Some of us have to be adults.
Partly because we know how to.
Partly because we can.
And partly because we have to compensate for a vast number of ‘well meaning fools’ like yourself.

I could call your opinion a luxury of first world innocence. Or I could call it naivety, or I could call it ignorance, or I could frame it with less kind accusations.
But you’re clearly a good person.
You’re just wrong to think your intuitions scale.
The don’t.

Cheers
CD