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‘Madman Theory’ Confronts a Real Madman

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‘Madman Theory’ Confronts a Real Madman
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President Donald Trump prepares to leave after speaking during an event at Verst Logistics on March 11, 2026 in Hebron, Kentucky. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)US Grand Strategy and the Madman TheoryFrom Nixon to Trumpby James D. BoysManchester, 288 pp., $21.95 (paperback)FEIGNED INSANITY IS NOT A NEW development in international politics. Niccolò Machiavelli observed in Discourses on Livy that “It is a very wise thing to simulate madness.”A certain appetite for risk and

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