re: #182 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

I wonder if the foreign leaders have decided that any sense of tact regarding Trump is not worth the effort at this point. There is no value in it since deferring to him just triggers further attempts by him to bully. His comments regarding them immediately turn to insults anyways when he is denied being given what he wants. And his word is meaningless anyways.

Historically no leader of an American ally was nice to the US president because there was “value” in it. A friend is a friend. There is no point in being “nice” to Trump because he is not a friend, and there is little downside because he is an idiot and a coward.

(This from the point of view of European countries with solid alliances, the calculus is much harder for places like Ukraine, the 3rd world and so on).