He was asking for it, wasn't he? I do wonder, is he delusional, stupid, or both?

there is no substance to the man whatsoever. Images are things, perception is reality. A staggeringly incurious man, oblivious to the world outside American most of his life - never even visited Canada before he became President; mistook Switzerland for Sweden in early briefings. Karl Rove as a policy advisor?

His framing is domestic power and domestic politics, and that's where he displayed some measure of skill - most of what the man does in foreign policy is shadowpuppetry, using the world as a backdrop, the intended audience domestic. He's inconsistently tough because he is tough when domestic political concerns tell him he needs to look tough, diplomatic when they tell him he needs to look diplomatic; none of it bears any relationship to anything that might resemble a coherent foreign policy because there is no policy.

"His framing is domestic power and domestic politics, and that's where he displayed some measure of skill..."

unless, as is likely i have seen you post before, that you are also saying he is truly a puppet...he does what they say needs to be done, as best he can....and the jingo-loving-hate-mongering-shallow-minded American followers of him eat it up. and there are many more of those that are not-so-obviously that. and the others are not paying attention, period.

beyond that, IMO, if you look at them [the Admin] and all they do as a corporate [war profiteering] crime syndicate, everything they do and have done makes sense. seriously.

"if it looks like a duck..." etc.

"who would Jesus bomb?"