"Finally someone’s standing up to these thugs—Trump’s hitting them hard because weak presidents let them walk all over us for decades." "Liberal hand-wringers will cry about 'escalation,' but you don’t stop bullies by asking nicely—you smash ‘em."

"Part of me gets the tough approach, but does ‘hitting back hard’ ever actually make things safer or just spiral into worse conflicts? How does this end well for anyone?" "I get wanting to look strong, but when has escalating against multiple countries at once not ended up in a mess? Feels li...