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I mean bravado on a personal level (especially if someone is bad at it) and bravado in international negotiations are completely different animals. I feel like
by pfannkuchen 2y ago
I mean bravado on a personal level (especially if someone is bad at it) and bravado in international negotiations are completely different animals. I feel like if you pretend it’s 1850 and there’s some great powers struggle afoot, trump makes a lot more sense. The game theory around international relations hasn’t really changed much since then, there’s just a veneer of ideology strapped on top of it.
Btw it’s much easier to just label someone stupid than to seek to understand them. It is definitely tempting.
- piva00 2y agoYou can understand it and come to the conclusion it's stupid. They are orthogonal concepts.
- watwut 2y agoBravado on a personal level is the same kind of dumb. I can understand someone and conclude their behavior and reasoning are faulty, harmful or then call it dumb. This idea that everyone must project increasingly unlikely positive smart motivations onto Trump or conservatives in general despite what they say and do is harmful. > I feel like if you pretend it’s 1850 and there’s some great powers struggle afoot, trump makes a lot more sense. I would say, he does not. When there are powers struggles afoot, it is actually better to be capable to be strategic about who/how you antagonize and attack. > The game theory around international relations hasn’t really changed much since then, there’s just a veneer of ideology strapped on top of it. I would argue that it did changed a lot in between. International relations are not the same at all.