Meinung: Es gibt keine Möglichkeit, Donald Trump zu beschwichtigen oder ihn abzuschrecken
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-there-is-no-appeasing-donald-trump-or-deterring-him/
Meinung: Es gibt keine Möglichkeit, Donald Trump zu beschwichtigen oder ihn abzuschrecken
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-there-is-no-appeasing-donald-trump-or-deterring-him/
6 Kommentare
Trump thinks he can get more by threats. Just wait him out and hope he is hamstrung after mid terms. If not, wait him out and hope he leaves power after his term ends.
We moved 6% of our trade away from the US already, according to recent reports. That needs to continue until we are diversified enough that the US loses more of their leverage.
Anyone paying attention should have figured this out years ago. If you ever relent he will double down to bet on you relenting again. It’s his modus operandi and has been his whole career. The only way for him to back down or be deterred is if you force him to legally or if you have the means to threaten something he wants or owns.
He wants his 51st state. This was all planned and mapped out years ago by Brannon and co. Every few months they will come up with another nail in our coffin and truthfully we won’t be able to stop him. Heck, He could actually shut us down tomorrow if had to.
His modus operandi seems to be provoking others so that their reaction can be framed as further evidence that he is powerful and is capable of getting something done to his supporters and the general public who aren’t paying close attention. Give in to his demands, he ratchets up, rebuke him, he does the same. Try to stall him, he gets angry and does the same again, just with a slight delay. Now, he’s gotten himself into multiple crises both at home and abroad, and he really needs a quick PR win before the mid-terms.
Canada’s in uniquely bad position due to the fact that the implicit promise he made to the downwardly mobile section of his supporters (with the talks of tariffs, trade deficits, alliance defence spendings, etc.) was that he will use might to transfer wealth from other nations to the working poor in the U.S. Closest neighbours are the most vulnerable targets, and Canada has the most money.
Perhaps a very keen strategist can frustrate him with a response that’s simultaneously a-yes-and-a-no in a way he can’t fall back onto any of his usual moves and be forced to find an easier target. Perhaps that was Carney’s play for the past year, and the timer has run out on that one.
>His actions make no sense even in terms of rational self-interest. It’s all just random impulses, fleeting grudges, synaptic burps, based on who spoke to him last, what he saw on TV or what he had for breakfast, for all I know.
This is someone who understands Donald Trump. I’m just disappointed there are so few people in government, media, and business who have figured it out.
> But there’s an upside to all this. If there’s nothing we can do – if we lose no matter what – then we might as well do what we want. When nothing you can do will improve your fortunes, when the outcome is the same regardless of which option you choose, the stakes converge on zero.
That’s about as eloquent as gets when it comes to describing the situation. There is no point in negotiating with an irrational actor who won’t even subscribe to his own rules, so we pretty much just have to ignore him and carry on.
In the famous words of Kris Kristofferson, „Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.“