Within reason.

Until quite recently, “the US sticks its dick in the chainsaw” wasn’t a “within reason” scenario.

mrcsharp 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Within reason

Reason dictates having redundancy in place. Having prepared scenarios for what to do. A lot of countries clearly don't have that and they are operating on the assumption that no major disruption is going to happen.

Depending on resources coming from historically unstable locations and not having plans to prepare for such instability is just foolish.

	▲	ceejayoz an hour ago \| parent [-]
		> Reason dictates having redundancy in place. The UK doesn’t have a strategic oxygen reserve in case the atmosphere disappears. It’s both implausible and not really something they can do much about. Trump is that sort of scenario.

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bawolff 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The middle east explodes is an eventuality that is within reason to prepare for. Its famously a geopolitical powder-keg.

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testing22321 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

To be fair this is not the first time a US President stuck their dock in something and got bitten