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myrmepropagandist · 8w
I could never understand why Trump would say "I could end that war in 24 hours" or "were I in charge you'd have peace in a day" I didn't understand why he'd say this since, to me, it seemed so obvio...
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If you think of US military might was overwhelming. If you think of US nuclear weapons as a kind of automatic win. And if you see wars as only contests of might and firepower why couldn't the US just say "do what we want or we'll nuke you?" and get everything that the US might want?

I think that's what Trump expected, why so many people went along with him and of course now it's not really working like that at all.

Is that what it was all along?

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Pete Alex Harris🦡🕸️🌲/∞🪐∫ · 8w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqzdp33shl69xr0uq3x8n5gsjykq9upycwh6nqm02c3f6x0frrn0dqlrpfuj Some of that. Some of it must have been that a narcissist with no impulse control, completely insulated from consequences will just say things like they could end a war in 24 hours beca...
That’s a moray · 8w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqzdp33shl69xr0uq3x8n5gsjykq9upycwh6nqm02c3f6x0frrn0dqlrpfuj Of course it was, and everyone outside of America understood it that way. I'm not sure why the very intelligent and actually strong people inside America have so much trouble reaching th...