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Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝ on Nostr: my usual: nostr:note17dlur4u7mc60gwxct25z40hv3f2yzelsvqdwmvl84q6a8fkmsrzqs03ect

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It's very common -- even in my TL -- for people to disparage Trump as incompetent for not understanding soft power and thinking he can do everything with hard power.

Bur this hasn't actually hurt him yet. The US has a whole lot of hard power!

"Soft power" is a concept that US client states like and that Democrats within the US like, because it means that they can pretend that they aren't hostage to hard power.