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Explain Like I'm Five
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The time has come when you need to explain why the world is functioning the way it is to a 5 year old.
That's called accountability !!
Sure kiddo, but sometimes grownups don't know all the answers. I can try to explain simple and predictable things like time dilation due to relativistic speeds, but explaining Trump's decision would require full knowledge of the CIA and the US military, a doctorate in international relations, economics, and psychiatry.
And even with all that, you would still be guessing.
I am not suggesting that Trump knows all of this, but weird as he is, he has an access to all of that (in form of reports, advisors and assistants and so on), and has his own agenda that we can only assume