Trump’s Iran Blunders Suddenly Look Darker after Damning New Leaks Hit: ‘As brutal revelations emerge about Trump’s handling of the war, a foreign policy expert explains why he won’t be able to extricate us from this debacle anytime soon—and provides a roadmap to what’s next’

I don’t think either Iran or the United States will “win” a war like this. Of course, it also depends on what one means by “winning.” Trump himself has offered a range of different, often contradictory explanations of what the United States actually wants.

The real geopolitical objective is likely to restore the dollar’s role as the primary currency for oil trade while at the same time restricting China’s access to energy supplies. Those are goals that both Russia and China will strongly oppose.

As we’ve seen in Ukraine and Syria, there is an obvious risk that the conflict could turn into a prolonged proxy war between the United States and Russia, where one side supplies the regime with weapons while the other arms rebel groups. In that kind of scenario, there are no real winners. In the end, it is the Iranian people who would pay the highest price.

It would be far better if all parties focused their efforts on taking care of their own citizens instead of playing great-power games and pretending war is a solution. I sincerely hope Europe doesn’t allow itself to be drawn into it.

well people everywhere in the world are going to be buying EV’s except in the US of course, where they won’t let them in and stabbed anyone in the face that wanted to make them there

I need to ask an idiot’s question.

Can’t the first step of extrication simply be stopping?

Trump has never gone to war. He’s authorised force, but he’s never actually gone to war. For a business man it’s the equivalent of the difference between agreeing a single sale, and agreeing a wholesale acquisition into a new area of business.

For a politician in a democracy going to war and doing so successfully you need the following.

Strong ethical values and a clear vision.

An operationally independent military who can a be held to account to achieve strategic goals set by politicians whilst allowed the operational freedom to determine how to deliver those goals. With actual tactics permitted within approved parameters set by politicians. If the strategic goals can’t be achieved within those parameters then the military need to be able to say so.

Trump venerates Churchill, but unlike Trump, Churchill had the following CV.

He had actually been an army officer and seen war first hand.

He had been a political leader and made strategic military decisions that failed through the execution, planning and failed strategic assessment (Gallipoli)

Churchill pushed the Gallipoli campaign in the face of doubts from the navy, but it was approved by cabinet (sound familiar). When it failed he was removed from office.

Churchill learned a lot from this. In WW2 he used clarity of mission and message to get over his goals.

“We will fight them on the beaches. We will never surrender”

He still made blunders, but overall he learned what was required as a political leader in the military sphere.

Trump has none of this. Not only that he’s surrounded himself with sycophants who have none of the required skillset either. Combined with an emasculated military who are seconds away from being fired if they tell the emperor that they aren’t the best thing in the world.

Some day in the future Trump will meet Nero in a higher place, and they’ll no doubt compare notes.

The end result of filling military leadership with Yes Men and MAGA DEI hires.

Trump decided when the “war” starts – not when it ends

Can’t wait to see the GOP complain about war in Iran when DEMs take over again and demanding concessions to keep the war and stabilization efforts going

“No new ‘Forever Wars’!” – Some pedophilic, narcissistic, psychopathic, failure of a businessman that Americans elected…again 🫠

This is why you don’t elect a complete fucking idiot president

Impeach him and have him go over and personally apologize.

The office of the Presidency needs to be neutered. It shouldn’t be possible for the executive branch alone to plunge us into a war that nobody wants.

trump lost an entire war in 3 days. impressive how short it is, even for him

This is that time when you start to regret rejecting the offer from a friend who offers you anti-model-airplane model airplanes.

LPT: when starting a war of choice against a militarily inferior country, it can be a bad idea to reject gifts from your friends who have recent experience.

Despite this ill-advised war executed by an incompetent president surrounded by even more incompetent sycophants, he and his henchmen won’t suffer for it. 

Every week there is some new outrage and his base always eventually falls in line. 

It’s pretty clear the only way to open the strait and get out of this will involve ground forces and navy and end up with heavy casualties. So yeah dumb fuck move

YouTubers knew more about how this would play out than the american president. That’s all you need to know.

Donald Trump has done the exact opposite of everything he promised to do when he ran in 2024. He is destroying America piece by piece, and I’m not sure if the country can ever recover from making the mistake of electing him president a second time.

False flag in California, immenant.

WCGW…a tv host and conman start a war in ME with no plan, no goal and no success measure.

Trump killed the new Iranian leader’s father. Wife. And his sister. This is going to last a long long long time.

Stupid Americans treat elections like a game show and don’t debate real policy that enables shit like this, I.e. congress delegating war making powers to the executive. Can we stop fucking treating elections like a reality tv show and instead focus on actual reform?

We Americans have the attention span of a goldfish, and the administration knows it. Some pop star will get a dui next week and it’ll all be forgotten.