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Steve S's avatar

Trump certainly thinks outside the box and acts in novel and unpredictable ways. Attempting to curry favor and turn Muslim nations such as Qatar and Pakistan into allies would work to achieve America's objectives, so long as Trump sticks to objectives beneficial to America and staunch allies such as Israel, who supported America despite knowing they would bear the worst of Iran's retaliation. It worked with Qatar as they influenced hamas to free the remaining living and most of the dead hostages. Remains to be seen long term how it works, especially given the dynamics of American politics and Trump hate hysteria by the Democrats, and on the Right and Left.

Freedom To Offend's avatar

We will see. I didn’t write this piece.

Mary Grande's avatar

Really interesting analysis commentary. I doubt anyone in Trump's admin or Trump himself would actually trust Pakistan. Heck I doubt you'll find an informed person on the streets that would ever say - trust Pakistan. I'd say use them and watch.

Dayna Albert's avatar

Thank you for sharing this fascinating analysis!