US President Donald Trump uses his unpredictability strategically, impacting both allies and adversaries during his presidency, former US Ambassador to Azerbaijan Matthew Bryza says.
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00:00Do you think we're going to be seeing a lot of this, I mean this is slightly going off
00:03piece, but promises that were made on the campaign, there were one thing on the campaign
00:07but now just seem to be, you know, pipe dreams, you know, that phone call being just one of
00:14them?
00:15Yeah, well I love skiing off piece, that's the best, so thanks for the question.
00:19I think, I think Trump is, he's been shooting from the hip, yes, you know, notoriously during
00:26an election campaign, I mean proposals are not rigorously thought through because you've
00:30got thousands of staffers all competing for the candidate's attention, trying to say something
00:36that's provocative and bold, and so those are not policy initiatives, so it's very common
00:42that foreign policy initiatives deviate in reality from the campaign.
00:46But Trump is continuing that unpredictability into his administration, A, by design, he
00:51believes unpredictability is a useful tool to keep his opponents and friends on the back
00:58of their heels, or on their toes, but also I think he also, he does not yet have a rigorous
01:05policy making process in place.