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Trump, Iran, and the Dangers of Presidential Bluffing
By artappraiser on Mon, 07/23/2018 - 7:39pm |Last year, the president’s threats targeted North Korea. The outcome holds lessons for a new round of threats.
By Uri Friedman @ TheAtlantic.com, July 23
What should we expect to happen next now that Donald Trump, who likes to “capitalize certain words … for emphasis,” sends an all-caps tweet in the middle of the night instructing Iran to “NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE”?
There’s no way to know for sure, but Trump himself has actually provided a helpful case study. Nearly a year ago, the U.S. president deployed almost identical language against Kim Jong Un. “North Korea,” he warned, “best not make any more threats to the United States. They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen.” [....]
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https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/07/donald-trump-iran-bluff/565844/
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