Trump Thread

[Montmorency]

entertainingly, i have followed adam aelkus for what must be nearly a decade now.

on the comment itself - i'm not sure i agree that it is unhelpful. yes, he tears down elements of process he doesn't like, but what i think i provided just how much 'deep' state process there is to wade through. i don't think its as rootin' tootin' as steve bannon tweeting trump with the message; "we can bag a big one if you're game for it?"

Nice.

The bottom line is that the White House (Trump, and his administration) is not a coherent or rational actor, so a standard analysis in terms of institutional Courses of Action and risk calculi is neither descriptive nor predictive of observed behaviors (going back to the beginning).

For all we can speculate Trump did this because he wanted to, in his mind, look tough compared to Jimmy Carter. That is, with no consideration of how this would affect any larger strategy toward Iran because there is no Iran strategy, just a series of "hyperreal" media events.