Game Theory: How London Journalists Spin Trumps Iran War Disaster, Tony Gosling, Al Mayadeen Lebanon

From afar, he appeared unassuming, even subdued. Is this really the man, I asked myself, who’s embraced the extinction of the human race? Who’s claimed possession by demons and communed with interdimensional “lemurs,” coined the term “hyperstition,” who left academia after an amphetamine-induced meltdown? Who has predicted the rise of a new kind of post-racial “hyper-racism,” where intelligent elites advance ahead and “genetic refuse” is left behind? Who former CCRU colleague and apprentice-turned-antagonist, the late Mark Fisher, called “our Nietzsche?” He didn’t seem terrifying enough. Trump&strategy with Iran is the &Theory&an international law expert explains An international law expert says the US President appears to be employing what&known as the "Madman Theory" in an attempt to end the war in Iran. In an expletive-laden post overnight, Donald Trump vowed to strike Iran&power plants and bridges if the country&leaders don&reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Waikato University Professor Al Gillespie told RNZ such actions would technically amount to war crimes, but he believed there was a deeper strategy at play. "Madman Theory" was a strategy brought to fame by Richard Nixon&unsuccessful attempt to end the Vietnam war, Gillespie said. The strategy involves behaving in an irrational, erratic manner, and threatening to go to extreme lengths to end a war or conflict. "The idea is that you don&know whether the person will or won&do it, and the opposition will be scared...