My latest two cents considering Obama the Cunctator and Trump the (hopefully) Knot Cutter.
One
Manufacturing regime change out of stagnant air is not, generally speaking, a sound suggestion. Smartly supporting a groundswell of discontent is a different matter. On a side note, the United States was the first major power to recognize the Russian provisional government after the overthrow of the Romanovs – on March 22, 1917.
Two
If President Trump is truly an aging Narcissus, few things would please him more than toppling a powerful leader whom he, Trump, has previously considered close to a peer. (This one’s not new, actually.) If the POTUS is indebted to that leader to any tangible degree, the latter’s demise would instantly incinerate the former’s IOUs.
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