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Bessent is an idiot: he thinks Trump is really clever by using Nixon's madman strategy. What he doesn't realize is that both Trump and the Iranian clerics are genuinely mad.
Anyhow, everybody knew Bessent is an idiot before: a married gay man rooting for Trump and his MAGA cult isn't right in the head.
While I will not defend the concept of theocracy, the people running Iran are anything but mad.
Brutal and repressive authoritarians? Sure.
But their strategy going back 40 years has been thoughtful and measured, which are not the qualities of people who are "mad".
The same cannot be said for Trump, obviously.
Religious people who are religious enough to forcibly turn their magical thinking into the law of the land on pain of imprisonment or death meet the definition of mad to me.
You were calling them mad in the context of geopolitical strategic thought i.e. madman theory, and that's just not true.
If you need evidence that they are thoughtful and measured, then just look at this war and how it's playing out.
And if you need more evidence, please read all of the reporting regarding the latest rounds of negotiations that Trump sabotaged.
Those are not the actions of mad men.
He's going to be so confused if/when this shitty cult annuls his marriage and sends him off to some xtian reeducation camp to "cure" his gayness.