My take...
Trying to sound tough on Russia and China.
But he makes the huge mistake of dismissing them, and thereby showing a huge lack of awareness, diplomacy, and reality.
Reagan confronted them strength to strength. He also often isolated his confrontation to the leadership and in many ways appealed to the general population.
Insulting Russia at large does nothing to separate the Russian people from bad decisions and tyrannical behavior of their leadership. Standing up to these despots doesn’t mean we must belittle their people. You run the risk of alienating an entire nation.
Result... The people of Russia and China are now MORE likely to coalesce behind their leaders as they battle “American imperialism”, not less. He has given them headlines for anti-American propaganda and pitted people against people, nation against nation, instead of defining our support for the Russians as isolated from our contentions with their leaders... ditto China.
exactly. This is the worst diplomacy I have ever seen, and if you can call it that.
High school childish crap from him again.