Why Diplomats Who Make Threats Should Rarely Be Trusted & Are Rarely Effective [View all]
According to theories of threat making, the way most leaders & politicians threaten other countries has nothing to do with changing the behavior of what your threatening. More often than not, it's a political ploy to make yourself appear to be a strong leader.
The problem with the strategy is that its destructive and I believe it keeps the war as opposed to promoting peace. It angers those who are threatened and it seldom gives reasonable ways for those threatened to extricate themselves from the situation which is a tell that the threat-maker is just chest thumping and really can't way what his countries true intentions are.
I think this sort of behavior perpetuates needless defense build ups and wars that are prepetuated by hatred. Yet, I also see that politically it works. People seem to like chest-thumping candidates so my question is what can be done to break this cycle?
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