I was talking to a friend today about an article I read trying to suggest that his “civilization destruction” tweet could’ve been an example of the old Russian “escalate to de-escalate” doctrine that’s never been proven to exist. While the article made some interesting points, including that Trump received Iran’s 10 points that were used for the ceasefire _before_ sending that tweet (I have no idea if this is true), I laughed when telling my friend, “Trump doesn’t even play checkers, let alone this kind of entry-level chess!”