Chest thumping false bravado will mislead you every time. If I go to a restaurant, wait an hour for a table, get very hungry, and then see on the menu that the

Chest thumping false bravado will mislead you every time. If I go to a restaurant, wait an hour for a table, get very hungry, and then see on the menu that the restaurant has tripled prices, is the restaurant "negotiating from a position of power" ? Sure, once. What exactly do you think happens to our power after Trump squanders it to extract one-time concessions that mostly flow into his own pockets?