How gullible does he think the rest of the world is? Is the unaware soul actually deluded into thinking people everywhere can't see that he was using the letter as a transparent pretense to grandstand for his own treacherous and impossible agenda?

It is misguided calculation at this level that has brought the world to one of the most serious confrontations afoot in it.

We used to think that nothing is more dangerous than ignorance in power. Now we must give primacy to insolent idiocy.