A smart thing about this rhetoric is the way it is blatant abuser-speak and that is very comprehensible to many people. After an insult which is objectively minor (arguably imagined), flying completely off the handle and throwing a violent fit.
You don’t need to understand anything about international affairs to know that a person like this will react in extreme and unpredictable ways to even small frictions. So the safest thing to do is to placate them. Avoid setting him off.
A lot of people were trained since childhood with this relationship model so it makes sense in a gut way.
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A smart thing about this rhetoric is the way it is blatant abuser-speak and that is very comprehensible to many people. After an insult which is objectively minor (arguably imagined), flying completely off the handle and throwing a violent fit.
You don’t need to understand anything about international affairs to know that a person like this will react in extreme and unpredictable ways to even small frictions. So the safest thing to do is to placate them. Avoid setting him off.
A lot of people were trained since childhood with this relationship model so it makes sense in a gut way.
It’s kind of the major basis of most US “diplomacy”