Josha,
Trump is threatening to create that chaos so that america alone is not carrying the burden of the order from which we all so deeply benefit – and europeans in particular ‘step up’ to carrying the burden of europe so that the USA can carry the burden of the east.
Everything Trump says is a negotiating position. Those who do not understand it are just victims of his strategy.
Despite multiple attempts, by multiple administrations, trying suggestion, then trying directness, didn’t work.
Trump’s strategy works.
I don’t like it either.
I just recognize that everything else has failed.
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