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Two thoughts on POTUS threatening to commit war crimes on twitter and then defending his comments to the press (short thread) theguardian.com/world/2020/jan…
1) There was no benefit to making this specific threat. None. There is, however, a strategic downside: getting full support for your policy has become next to impossible. Lesson: conducting foreign policy on twitter outside regular channels continues to be a terrible idea.
2) The reason Trump has given will appeal to his nationalist supporters. Who really don’t care very much about such “subtleties” as allies, law or war crimes. Nationalism unchained.
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