The Man Who Knew Too Much — and the One Who Knew Too Little
There is a strange collision happening in global politics.
On one side stands Vladimir Putin, a former KGB officer shaped by a worldview that never truly died.
On the other stands Donald Trump, whose reputation as a “master negotiator” rests largely on the single psychological trick of the decoy effect.
This tactic, central to his style, relies on presenting a deliberately bad, ‚decoy‘ option first, to make the next option look like a bargain, regardless of its true value.
These two logics were never designed to meet. But they now shape the fate of Europe — and the danger lies in their asymmetry, rooted in one shared conviction: