Literally nobody thinks Mike Pompeo is telling the truth about this, or anything. He works for Donald Trump, who also lies about everything, always.https://twitter.com/RobbieGramer/status/1221172307089149958 …
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I don’t know any IR theorist who has really engaged fully the implications of everyone - foreign and domestic- knowing that an administration lies about everything, and has no credibility on anything.
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Replying to @abuaardvark
Until… they go off and unexpectedly kill a high-ranking general, for example. This is the madman pose that Nixon fantasized about so much.
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Doesn’t establish credibility though - no threat was issued, they just up and did it. So for signaling purposes, useless.
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Didn’t Nixon want the madman theory just for unpredictability’s sake—so that *any* threat would be at least marginally credible? The problem was that he wasn’t a madman, so it couldn’t be credible. An admin that is understaffed and liable to go off about anything, OTOH…
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I’m not saying this is any way to do foreign policy. Just suggesting that the theoretical idea of this kind of administration at least must have occurred to Kissinger at some point.
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Did you delete your tweets in that exchange? I only see mine
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