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When you elect a meme steak salesman into office who treats *every* interaction with a foreign country as an opportunity for intense negotiations (muh art of the deal) - instead of normal diplomacy, don't be surprised when they start negotiating hard back.

Instead of playing the long game and being able to call in favours, or the country knows you'll have a few favours in the tank, his aggressive demeanour from the outset every time means other countries cannot trust him.

So every moment is all or nothing. Sometimes works, in times like this not so much.