I don't think people appreciate the fact that Erdogan was shocked that Trump was acceding to his demands of a Syrian withdrawal: https://newrepublic.com/minutes/152806/turkish-president-shocked-trump-went-along-demand-syrian-withdrawal …
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Trying to make sense of the Erdogan-Trump phone call and one possibility is that Trump wanted Syrian withdrawal was looking for a pretext. Erdogan made demand a bargaining ploy, not thinking Trump would accede, and thus provided pretext which Trump seized.
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And all this time I thought Trump was like a used car salesman. Turns out he's more like the customer used car salesmen dream about.
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Little Donny ain’t right in the head.
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The "master negotiator" strikes again. Let's see. NK, Russia, moving embassy to Jerusalem with no giveback, the Ds offer to fund his wall with 25Billion in trade for DACA . The list goes on and on.
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ah, you see, this is a form of the madman negotiation theory, by signaling that you may just immediately and reflexively give in to any crazy thing anyone demands of you, you deter them from trying to employ any sort of clever negotiating strategy against you at all
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Yes, lets stay forever. Remember victory is always just around the corner.
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Your forgetting the other unnamed partner in the deal. Let's just call him "Vladimir P". Then it makes perfect sense.
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That's some stable geniusing right there.
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