• ruuster13@lemmy.zip
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    15 days ago

    Art of the Deal chapter 2 is about leverage. There is no concept of soft power, so we’ve abandoned it. This includes USAID. This will be viewed in hindsight as the single biggest mistake we made.

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      There are other single biggest mistakes like pushing rest of the world to get rid of US software and possibly towards open source.