Sarah Paine

You want to put the screws on, but you want to also keep yourself part of it.

We're overdoing it in some fronts.

And also, you're doing it in such an insulting way.

I'll give you some Machiavelli on this one.

So he's the founding father of political science.

And he talked about motivating people with fear, love, and hate.

And he's talking about in The Prince, he's princes.

And he says...

He just says, forget about love because you can't make people like you, right?

You can do everything.

People still don't like you.

And he's a big man in saying, make them fear you because you can really motivate people.

But he says, don't make them hate you.

If they hate you, they will fight you.

Well, if you're running around serially spitting your allies in the face, they are going to hate you.

And it won't work out well.

It's just a bad strategy.

Don't do it.

The clickbait of insulting someone who comes to your house, that's very temporary.

But the hatred of it, and also other people viewing it and going, this is what qualifies as American diplomacy, those memories are long-term.