re: #101 lawhawk

Trump thinks he can win a war using nukes.

I’m not sure that’s quite true, but I do think that some of his advisers think so.

I think Trump has a deep seated fear of getting involved in an actual shooting war. He understands it can all go wring and make everyone hate him. Look at the times he’s actually used force - it was so limited as to be completely meaningless - “Hey, let’s blow up a few nonworking Syrian airplanes, as long as everyone gets clear”.

It’s one of the things that makes his belligerence so pointless - he eventually gets exposed as a paper tiger.