Comment by DarthFluttershy_ on 03/02/2025 at 00:14 UTC

1 upvotes, 0 direct replies (showing 0)

View submission: Canada's Trudeau announces counter tariffs

View parent comment

Not in my case. I'm fully comfortable with the conclusion Trump is a maniac, but he's not a total moron, so it's possible some semblance of sense is actually happening in his head... But he latches onto half-baked plans and excuses them as "leverage." He's very much used to being a bully negotiator, and it keeps working in the political sphere by tapping into anger within the electorate... It may even work with smaller counties as president, but what I think he completely missed is that good will is not an infinite resource. At some point, probably not too far off, alienating allies has a deleterious effect.

Replies

There's nothing here!