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| Credit: Michael Tracey |
I just realized that many Americans interpreted Trump´s pre-deadline tweet as a threat to use nuclear weapons against Iran. I´m referring to this (now notorious) sentence: "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will."
I took it to be hyperbolic. Interestingly, the Iranian regime probably didn´t take it seriously. Otherwise they wouldn´t have made maximalist demands and closed that fucking strait again. As far as I understand, the holy market didn´t believe it either, since there was apparently very little turbulence at the stock exchanges as the deadline approached.
Is this the first time "the madman strategy" works better on your own population than on the enemy? If so, that´s an original record, to be sure!
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