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Art of the Deal 101: Use leverage or perceived leverage to threaten the other party in order to get a better deal. Irrelevant that the net result is the destabilization of modern society, if he saves a buck and gets to swing his orange, shriveled dick around. He's been doing it since day one.
Hard to say which of his threats are real until he backtracks, though. I would not have guessed actually kidnapping Maduro, for example. But, you've got tactibro Hegseth frothing to be seen as tough and likely stoking the fires which changes the equation a bit.