Trump may belong to that select club of presidents whose arrogance matches that of our generals. Early in his presidency, he horrified some official by asking why we had H-bombs if we couldn’t use them? While it’s true he didn’t start any new wars, don’t try telling that to Chinese leadership. They clearly believed he was a nut ready to nuke them. After all, at a certain point you have to take the most powerful man on the planet at his word, and if he’s babbling about China being a threat, enemy number one and a country that deliberately concocted and released a global plague killing millions of people, because, uh, communism, well, if he’s NOT trying to provoke war, the only word for what he’s doing is stupid. More

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