PS I'm making a general game-theoretic point about the importance of discretion and security in diplomatic communication, not commenting either way on any particular current events.
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Language or violence. Diplomacy or war. If you reduce the ability of heads of state to talk to each other candidly, for fear of conversations being made public later, you inhibit language. You inhibit diplomacy. You increase the risk of war. Is that really what we want?
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I don't think the players involved are thinking of the long term, more consequential implications. It's just "win now", at any cost.
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It would be nice if politicians could think seven generations ahead. Or even past 2050.
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Have you thought about any possible downsides to the rhetoric you use?
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The only one threatening war right now is the president.
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This is a nerdtastically pedantic and thoroughly misguided point to be making at this time particular time in history.
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Only when there's reasonable evidence of self-dealing. Is this what you want to be hidden?
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This is a courtesy you extend to heads of state who are deserving of it, Geoffrey. It’s not hard to see that Trump has abused it. I’m with you in wanting socially-beneficial policy, but this is not a battle I’d want to be fighting.
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For the most part, it seems like what people who are fans of politics want. They say they don't, but their preference falsification rears its ugly head every time a shibboleth is threatened.
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