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There's a story Winston Churchill tells of, of an old man who lived a long life on his death bed surrounded by his family, where one of his grand-children asks
by casenmgreen 2y ago
There's a story Winston Churchill tells of, of an old man who lived a long life on his death bed surrounded by his family, where one of his grand-children asks him for the dying man's advice about life.
The man thinks for a moment and then says : "I've seen a lot of trouble in my life, most of which never happened".
We can all now think of a million ways in which Trump will be a disaster.
I predict that bad as he will be, most of what we now worry about will not happen.
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- cbeach 2y agoA lot of people predicted WW3 as soon as Trump took office in 2016. The reality was that Trump's unpredictability and Machiavellian approach to diplomacy put a chill on many of America's global rivals. With the Abraham Accords, Trump brought the Middle East a step closer to stability. And despite some rhetorical silliness with North Korea, the situation on the Korean peninsula was more stable under Trump than it became under Biden. Regarding Russia, I feel Russia waited for the election of Biden (a decrepit, predictable leader on the World stage) before invading Ukraine.
- casenmgreen 2y agoI have a rather different view - I thought Trump was so scattered, and his party ungovernable due its internal splits, that he was unable to implement his crazy ideas. Regarding Russia, I may be wrong, but I think Putin's judgement of the situation was so insular, based purely on everyone agreeing everything would go just fine and no one thinking for one second about what might go wrong and what to do if it did, that Putin's assessment of the situation was not meaningful.