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1. The Bolton departure has revived the whole question of whether Trump is a dove (or dovish) or not, which I think (pace Nate Silver) is the wrong frame-work for thinking about Trump's clownish foreign policy.
2. Trump isn't a dove, nor is he a hawk. He's a showboating narcissist. Obama won a Nobel Prize so Trump wants one too. He thinks he has a way to do it: create international tension and then take credit for negotiating a resolution.
3. This is Trump's M.O. all the time: break something (NAFTA, China trade, Iran deal) and then try and patch up differences (hence his back-channel feelers to Iran). Or in real estate terms: insult a property to distress its value, buy it cheap, stamp the TRUMP logo on it.
4. Some more thoughts on the Bolton departure & the ongoing degradation of American diplomacy, which will only continue: thenation.com/article/trump-…
