If the opposite side believes you completely rational, it limits the actions they believe you'll take. On the other hand, if they believe you're impulsive, there are fewer limits on what they believe you'd do.
... Unfortunately, if they believe you're too irrational, it ends badly.
Completely agree. It would have been a nightmare.
> As an aside, I'm really very glad this didn't happen a couple years ago when we had our own mad-man with the launch codes.
Weirdly enough: the risk of spillover would be lower, the danger to Ukraine much higher. But that is also why we are where we are today: without Trump undermining the whole situation in Ukraine would be quite different and Putin would not have embarked on this thing in the first place.
What are you talking about?
There was the controversy about his talk with Zelenski of course, but the end result is described here:
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-admin-approves-sale-an...
And delay in sending weapons to Ukraine is not unknown for the Biden administration:
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/18/white-house-ukraine...
So maybe your point is that sending weapons to Ukraine was a bad idea that just annoyed Putin, and that's why it's Trump's fault?
Looking at broader economic issues, how could you possibly think that Trump's support for energy development in the West helped Russia, which relies on high oil prices to support its economy, as compared to Biden's shutting down of energy development?
In 2017, the first Congressional Delegation to Russia (all Republicans) had a private meeting with Putin on July 4th - Independence Day!
Trump recently praised Putin and called his tactic “genius” and just today Tom Cotton(R) refused to denounce Trumps support of Putin.
Ad nausem…
Trumps indirect support of Putin and Kim Jong Un was also particularly unnerving.
This statement seems detached from reality, unless by "foreign" you mean "Canadian".
As an aside, I'm really very glad this didn't happen a couple years ago when we had our own mad-man with the launch codes.