1. This is a crucial point about not just Iran but broader American foreign policy: Trump & his advisors keep saying very different things, sending out mixed messages that greatly increase the risk of war.https://twitter.com/Mediaite/status/1141670278000517120 …
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3. With Iran, there's evidence that Trump has been trying to set up a backchannel to the Iranian government & perhaps used Japanese PM Abe as a backchannel. But Bolton undermined by announcing new sanctions.
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4. If this was a co-ordinated good-cop/bad-cop routine it would make sense but it's something worse than that: an administration that is sending incoherent messages to rivals, which is likely to increase paranoia & tensions, possibly sparking a war.
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5. I write more about the dangers of Trump administration's incoherent foreign policy here: https://www.thenation.com/article/trump-iran-foreign-policy/ …
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Considering we're halfway through year three of his term with really nothing major going on. Would you say Trump is the most pacifist president of the last 30-40 years?
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A classic inverted Nixon madman gambit
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