The thing is, to the average Trump voter, I’m betting that ‘not observing the usual diplomatic niceties’ is seen as a feature, not a bug. But those ‘diplomatic niceties’ are a big part of why we haven’t all gone to war at a couple points since 1945.

Consider the Cuban Missile Crisis. Kennedy found a narrow path that allowed the US to stop the deployment of the missiles, AND give Kruschev what he needed, quietly and not for public consumption. I cannot imagine Trump being capable of that kind of subtlety, and worse, his love of Patton and MacArthur* suggests he’d be far too prone to listen to Curtis Fucking LeMay.

*He loves them, but based on how he refers to them I’m pretty sure his understanding of each is extremely limited. There’s a very good reason why each Patton did not get Eisenhower’s job, and a similarly good reason why Truman fired MacArthur.