>>519352499
>It is clear that no one has the balls to do so today.
i'm thinking that's due to MAD / mutually assured destruction
it's like the prisoner dilema (or one of them) where you'd hesitate because doing so would set a whole lot of things of motion that you do not really want to either assume responsibility or would want to create the chaos for others
>in front of Hitler, Stalin or Mao
well this event is exactly what happened just that the one with power in that interview was Trump
it is, what was it called, "hitting down" (?) a little but Machievellians would argue that it is necessary to keep people in line
Erdogan is not the sharpest oligarch in the shed, so to say, and the only thread hanging him is that NATO has interests in Turkey
otherwise, even Trump, knowing his reactions, is really really holding back with lots and lots of people
either because they are more powerful or rich (see Musk) but more than often it's really just because of interests
Musk made a snide comment about Argentina's Milei that would imply some of his kids look like dogs ("even the dog-looking ones", IIRC) and after all Milei is a president, not really a nobody
but the point is there's not reason to chimp out if you do not gain anything, more than often the hubris of being unhinged turns karma against them