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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]]".
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]]".
In negotiations with North Vietnam, [[Henry Kissinger]] presented himself as [[rational]] & [[reason]]able, trying to restrain the "mad man", [[Richard Nixon]], who nobody could predict how he would react in any 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 [[Washington, DC]] time when Nixon was drunk and let everybody hear on the speaker phone Nixon say "We gotta [[nuke]] 'em, Henry". Trump does a very similar thing in the midst of peace negotiations.
In negotiations with North Vietnam, [[Henry Kissinger]] presented himself as [[rational]] & [[reason]]able, trying to restrain the "mad man", [[Richard Nixon]], who nobody could predict how he would react in any given situation. For example, the North Vietnamese would make a proposal, Kissinger would say "I dunno. Let me call the boss and find out". Kissinger would call Nixon at 2 AM [[Washington, DC]] time when Nixon was drunk and let everybody hear on the speaker phone Nixon say "We gotta [[nuke]] 'em, Henry". Trump does a very similar thing in the midst of peace negotiations.
[[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]].
[[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]].
It needs to be remembered, after dragging out negotiations for 5 years, the whole thing collapsed with a humiliating [[US]] defeat 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)
It needs to be remembered, after dragging out negotiations for 5 years, the whole thing collapsed with a humiliating [[US]] defeat 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)