Brownian motion is a reasonable metaphor for the way Trump is conducting foreign policy. Lots of motion, generating heat, but no net movement in a consistent direction. Hence the ginger approach our allies have to the boiling stew of America’s global perambulations. They are rightly fearful of getting burned. Iran called Trump’s bluff and he folded. If Trump goes back to the table for another hand, he better be holding “the cards” for real. Wow…in one short paragraph I created a stew of metaphors, mixed six ways to Sunday. My lack of verbal focus reminds me of someone…hmmm.
https://substack.com/@ialerch/note/c-287592158?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=1a3noo
Brownian motion is a reasonable metaphor for the way Trump is conducting foreign policy. Lots of motion, generating heat, but no net movement in a consistent direction. Hence the ginger approach our allies have to the boiling stew of America’s global perambulations. They are rightly fearful of getting burned. Iran called Trump’s bluff and he folded. If Trump goes back to the table for another hand, he better be holding “the cards” for real. Wow…in one short paragraph I created a stew of metaphors, mixed six ways to Sunday. My lack of verbal focus reminds me of someone…hmmm.
Perhaps a more apt image is that of a senile old man wandering lost in an alien landscape.
Trump appears to have lost the plot - a dangerous loose cannon