The message is unmistakable: there are no absolute guarantees and state sovereignty is conditional when it clashes with the interests of powerful states.
The madness lies in asserting something ... contrary to all evidence and intelligence. The method is doing it again and again, relentlessly, at full volume ... This is how Trump became president twice.
[The voter's mandate]t does not give [Trump] the right to destroy everything that politicians have spent decades building to appease a sick need for vengeance.