Where do you fall? Grand strategy or literally no fucking plan?

Speaking of Iran in particular, by the way. I go back and forth. It’s easy to place things into a narrative with the past (ie Ukraine coup, nato expansion, Russian invasion, nordstream goes boom, us slanging energy to Europe, shale revolution, Venezuela, iran… i think those events kinda create a narrative) but i think it’s just as likely that the whole madman thing is actually just a reality.

My take is that there is a continuity of strategy and plans long lain that can be tapped, but that as executor the president has all power as executor; including power to totally screw it up.

I wish we could just manage our decline