The Occam's Razor explanation for Trump's tendency to butter up dictators is that he thinks strictly in boss-to-boss negotiation terms. It's basically the habit of treating the people with power as the people who count.
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His relationship with Xi seems much more normal than his bromance with Kim or Putin.
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Calling it normal might be overstating it but on a relative scale I think it's true. The PRC anniversary tweet is orders of magnitude less weird that exchanging "love letters" with Kim or Trump's Helsinki performance.
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