[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa0su4dP3JY&t=12m58s on YouTube][[User:Telling|Telling]] ([[User talk:Telling|talk]]) 04:51, June 30, 2026 (EDT)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa0su4dP3JY&t=12m58s on YouTube][[User:Telling|Telling]] ([[User talk:Telling|talk]]) 04:51, June 30, 2026 (EDT)
:The courage to tell it like it is.[[User:Dianne3000|Dianne3000]] ([[User talk:Dianne3000|talk]]) 11:03, June 30, 2026 (EDT)
:The courage to tell it like it is.[[User:Dianne3000|Dianne3000]] ([[User talk:Dianne3000|talk]]) 11:03, June 30, 2026 (EDT)
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==Trump/Vance and the Nixon/Kissinger model==
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The [[Trump]]/[[JD Vance]] [[negotiating]] style appears built upon the [[Nixon]]/[[Kissinger]] good cop/bad cop [[strategy]] used in [[peace]] talks with [[North Vietnam]]. It's commonly referred to as the "[[mad man theory]]".
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In negotiations with North Vietnam, [[Henry Kissinger]] presented himself as [[rational]] & [[reasonable]], trying to restrain the "mad man", [[Richard Nixon]], who nobody predict how he would react in a given situation. For example, the North Koreans would make a proposal, Kissinger would say "I dunno. Let me call the boss and find out". Kissinger would call Nixon at 2 Am [[Wahington, DC]] time when Nixon was drunk and let everybody hear on the speak phone Nixon say "We gotta [[nuke]] 'em, Henry". Trump does the same thing in the midst of peace negotiations.
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[[Putin]] and [[Dmitry Medvedev]] do the same good cop/bad cop routine, with Putin playing the [[moderate]] and Medvedev playing the unhinged lunatic on [[Twitter]].
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It needs to be remembered, after dragging out negotiations for 5 years, the whole thing collapsed with a humiliating [[US]] loss as soon as Nixon was gone. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|WWJD? Would he claim 2 gay bathhouses in Russia compared to 300 in America justifies nuclear war?]]</sup> 13:33, June 30, 2026 (EDT)