This has probably been self-evident for a long time, but the US is not being run by a rational actor and people need to stop rationalizing this behaviour as if there is any strategy or logic behind it
Indeed. This is not “Trump’s attempt to remake the world order” or whatever. It’s an unusually spoiled and malevolent toddler somehow entrusted with the world’s most powerful military and economy lashing out.
This has probably been self-evident for a long time, but the US is not being run by a rational actor and people need to stop rationalizing this behaviour as if there is any strategy or logic behind it
