When you look at children playing they already repeat the sometimes age-old patterns of the patriarchal societies we live in: “When you start touching my sandcastle, I’ll kick yours…!”
“Why? Because…!”
It’s that thing about boasting, bragging and hitting the chest, just as apes do…
Whenever in history was it helpful or really effective to use threats of war? Usually it will just end in war!
How ridiculous can you get these days? Especially someone like Trump, who was raised in a place that calls itself a military school, not to say an academy, West Point…
I beg your pardon, ‘dude’, but if you didn’t get what tactics should have taught you, you are wrong for that job anyway!
Do you really and truly believe that you will get Putin to relent this way?
Or is this one step into yet another ‘deal’ to sell more weapons?
That is Putin and Trump, as per precedence (s.a. 2016 elections, where Putin had them manipulated in favour of Trump)* getting together behind the scenes – and having a ‘ball’ at our expense…?
Well, there’s a thought: Do not buy into their wars.
This strange entity called Trump is known for and even proud of making ‘deals’ that way: He creates a background of scares and fear and threats – and then tries to move in. But then, apparently he suffers from ADHD anyway…
Unfortunately Putin in Russia for reasons of his own would not be where he is today if he was ‘got’ that easily – assuming that what we see in front of cameras is not just a …
Big stage performance…
*Note: Since then the Washington Post has been acquired by Jeff Bezos, founder of amazon and has become completely unreliable.