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Bitcoin slips below $71,000 as Trump orders U.S. to join Iran in blockade of Strait of Hormuz (www.coindesk.com)
submitted 3 months ago by technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Get ready for the lines going down on Monday...

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[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 64 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

The madman theory is a political theory commonly associated with the foreign policy of U.S. president Richard Nixon and his administration, who tried to make the leaders of hostile communist bloc countries think Nixon was irrational and volatile so that they would avoid provoking the U.S. in fear of an unpredictable response.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madman_theory

[–] FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 83 points 3 months ago (2 children)

And in this case he actually is mad.

[–] kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Nixon was pretty irrational himself.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Nixon was corrupt, but he was also intelligent. He described on the Today Show, in 1994, Putin's rise to power, 6 years before it even happened. Purely based on being able to see how situations would unfold. And he was right.

But nobody gave a shit, because the person saying it was Nixon. Nobody wanted to hear what that asshole had to say.

I wish people today still held that same contempt for corrupt politians.

[–] kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 months ago

He certainly wasn't stupid, but a rational person would have never bugged the DNC in preparation for an election where he was that heavily favored. He only stood to lose, but he was paranoid.

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Nixon was a flower girl next to these goons in the WH.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Are flower girls notoriously sane?

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

My mind goes straight to Daisy Girl.....but I can't make the connection between Nixon, and the first ever political attack ad.

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

That's exactly what Putin has been doing for years. Unfortunately Putin is pulling it off quite well.

We're just going to take Ukraine, and then likely whatever country looks easiest to take next. But if anyone else got involved in these conflicts I will totally launch my nukes all over the place! You just watch, I'll do it, I'm fuckin nuts!

Don't even think about sending troops, because that would add fuel to an already dangerous situation (that we manufactured and could totally end at any time).