Ignoring Trump is one of the best moves you can do, he’d probably resign as president if he weren’t on television all the time and if nobody came to his press conferences.
Iran doesn’t take shit
There’s no point in talking to Trump because he has shown time and time again that his words are worthless. He’s also an attention addict and megalomaniac, so talking to him, especially if it’s televised and on the world stage, is giving him exactly what he wants.
They probably saw the Zelensky “talks” and decided to save their time.
I’d argue that goes for any US president. Even if they’re completely genuine, everything can change on a dime when the next admin comes into power.
In a sense that’s true for any country, though. The only differences are (1) how often the policy changes and (2) by how much. US used to have a 4-year cycle and much less variance in the policies and so it made some sense to get into long-term agreements. Even in the last 8 years, agreements reached by Trump were continued by Biden (e.g. NAFTA). Now though the cycle is like 4 days and the policy swings are 180°, so it only makes sense to enter into extremely short-term, transactional agreements, or if you have no other choice (like Ukraine).
That’s demonstrably false. Take China as an example where there is a stable political system, a single party in charge, and decisions are made across decades.
We can agree that China is a more stable partner than the US. My point is that party leadership can also change there, leading to policy changes - it just doesn’t happen as often and there’s usually no dramatic swings when it does. It’s a scale, not a binary thing.
That’s the whole point though, it’s the erratic swings in policy that make the US impossible to work with. China doesn’t change policy on whim, and it acts rationally. This makes it possible to make long term plans with China and have confidence that China will commit to these plans. The same cannot be said about the US where policy is volatile and unpredictable.
Honestly I think most of the world feels like that at this point.
A lot of countries by now are stockpiling weapons and weapons accessories in preparation of a war. Talking is leaving the chat.
Lots of countries are bolstering forces by hundreds of thousands, even if their current military is in the tens of thousands. It’s eerie how similar it seems when the world is preparing to avoid war, and when the world is preparing for war.
There is no preparing to avoid war. We had a long peace time because people thought nuclear powers couldn’t be humbled by non nuclear powers but Russia went ahead and proved that to be a false assumption.
They’re preparing for war be out today to or a decade it’s happening and likely in your lifetime.
Based Iran
Tbh, thats the smartest thing evet to say
His words are meaningless and only serve to please his base, recruit fresh meat, and stoke his ego. It’s a pretty rational approach if you aren’t part of the base.
