The limits of U.S. President Donald Trump’s brand of extremely personalized, belligerent diplomacy have never been more apparent than with the negligible outcomes this week involving two of the world’s deadliest ongoing conflicts.
In Gaza, Israel’s military shattered the tenuous ceasefire on Tuesday by inflicting the largest number of deaths in a single day on Palestinians since the war started in October 2023.
And after Trump’s phone call with Vladimir Putin on Ukraine, any hope that the Russian president was prepared to roll back or significantly restrain his ongoing three-year assault on the country also proved largely illusory.
Both results were easily predictable, say veteran diplomats, given Trump’s almost single-minded focus on scoring quick wins at the expense of the harder work of dogged diplomacy resulting in lasting gains.
In what ways is he not a mad man?
Because he’s President of the United States, and madmen leading countries is something that happens in Other Places, not America.
Just like how a gibbering idiot can’t possibly become rich, since the American business world is a 100% flawless meritocracy.
It’s a rhetorical trick that the author is using. The word madman sticks with the reader despite being discounted in the title.
Allow me to help you learn to read the news, thread. “Madman” is in quotes in the headline for a reason. If you actually RTFA, you find that the word isn’t being used in the headline to refer to Trump’s mental faculties, it is a reference to a so-called “madman theory” of diplomacy. The article is not taking a position on whether or not Trump is sane, and when you take up that argument with the article, and scoff at it for apparently arguing that Trump is sane when it has nothing to say on that subject, you look kind of foolish.
Thank you.
I need to rethink how I scroll past endless headlines (and even summaries), and form an impression of them. I should be looking for interesting articles to read, not just matching headlines with my preconceived notions.
Edit: it’s even worse when 90% of the conversation is about the headline, rather than the article.
Negligible outcomes?
He is succeeding. Why is this person assuming he isn’t a madman or doesn’t want this?
I agree. He wants to “shake things up” and pick up the destabilized pieces in terms of land and resources.
Can we stop pulling punches on the orange idiot? He’s a grown ass adult, and should face the consequences of his choices, if not for the complicit bodies that are congress and the senate.
The limits of U.S. President Donald Trump’s brand of extremely personalized, belligerent diplomacy have never been more apparent than with the negligible outcomes this week involving two of the world’s deadliest ongoing conflicts.
In Gaza, Israel’s military shattered the tenuous ceasefire on Tuesday by inflicting the largest number of deaths in a single day on Palestinians since the war started in October 2023.
Ah actions so negligible that people a being killed in record numbers.
CBC almost called Trump a bad guy but contorted themselves into saying he just erratic and bad at diplomacy.
I really wonder the reason why Conservatives are reported to such a different standard than anyone else.
