I liked your piece today, Jack. But the problem with the idea of a procedural presidency is that Greenland, for instance, could just be episode 6 out of xx. No matter if you are luxuriating in Bora Bora or some such, consciously oblivious. There’s another issue to consume down the line.
This feels a tad trivial. This issue alone, if not resolved, could shatter the alliance. And as you imply, no alternative meets that man’s psychological need. He probably might say: “I don’t like bases. I want territory. I want to go down in the history books.”
And it’s not as if another impeachment (that over-hyped stage 1 of a process which sounds far more pregnant with consequence to the uninitiated, than it is) will resolve anything.
I really believe he is unconsciously following the Thucydidean dictum (put into mouths of Athenian ambassadors, when Athens was trying to subdue neutral Melos):
The strong do what they can,
The weak suffer what they must.
At least by his threats, he has avowedly given up on Nobel.
I liked your piece today, Jack. But the problem with the idea of a procedural presidency is that Greenland, for instance, could just be episode 6 out of xx. No matter if you are luxuriating in Bora Bora or some such, consciously oblivious. There’s another issue to consume down the line.
This feels a tad trivial. This issue alone, if not resolved, could shatter the alliance. And as you imply, no alternative meets that man’s psychological need. He probably might say: “I don’t like bases. I want territory. I want to go down in the history books.”
And it’s not as if another impeachment (that over-hyped stage 1 of a process which sounds far more pregnant with consequence to the uninitiated, than it is) will resolve anything.
I really believe he is unconsciously following the Thucydidean dictum (put into mouths of Athenian ambassadors, when Athens was trying to subdue neutral Melos):
The strong do what they can,
The weak suffer what they must.
At least by his threats, he has avowedly given up on Nobel.