“if winning requires such duplicity then we’re screwed any way.”

This doesn't follow. But it's only the latter in your string of non sequitur conclusions.

Duplicity, bluffing, lulling, string-bets, check-raising, slow-rolling, knight forks, gambits, bishop pins, double-downs, bunting, squeeze plays, and more.. all are par tactics in world affairs that are obviously never off that table.

Trump is real.

Which is why every flying monkey in the nwo zoo is trying 24/7 to destroy him. Including an army of internet [gs]-paid trolls spreading lies and backspinning half truths, foolishly trying to start ww3 for 30 lousy pieces of silver.

Moreover, your lack of understanding (concerning the Syria moves) reveals an MSMatrix level of misinformation. As I said to your pal/collaborator, you can't see the subtleties of the game, not knowing the pieces, their location, their motives, or even the official score on the big board.

So try watching some 'real [not fake] news' and stop monkeying around with great history, a blind-to-facts propaganda-fed amateur en passant trying to tell Bobby (T) Fischer how to play chess.

There's a silent global war [endgame] going on which MSnwoM followers know nothing about.