The Importance of Domestic Provocative Language

If we think of it as being performative, there's one show performed for the domestic population. And that is typically going to be something about our enemies to keep people motivated by fear. Then the same people have what they say on the international sphere. Sometimes those messages might seem contradictory to the domestic population so they're not really broadcast. The stuff that your leader is saying when it's not being recorded to groups of other leaders is probably not the same stuff.