Trump himself said on Sunday he planned to reopen communications with Iran, suggesting Washington does not see the government going anywhere, at least in the immediate term.
Why would Iranian officials waste their time, since the talking last time was a bluff?
exactly, there’s this delusion that the US can control the escalation here, but now they’ve taken on a country that can fight back
Iranians to Trump, “I don’t want to talk to you no more, you empty-headed animal, food trough wiper! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!”
I like elderberry…🙈
So Trump’s plan is to abduct or kill heads of state and assume their governments will collapse? Is it literally that stupid?
i mean, he’s using his own “theory of mind”
i (trump) am the most important here, as the based god-emperor
if i fall, everything will go down the crapper
ergo, if i kill the heads of other nations i dislike, their regimes will die!
their own propaganda plays against rightoids
He must, without a doubt, believe that if a certain head of state were to be decapitated (literally, because why the fuck not at this point lol), that nation would collapse. Man, are things really, really that fragile, then? I’m familiar with Chairman Mao’s “reactionaries are paper tigers” quote, but holy-moly, it’s laughable how literal things are.
Doubt they think it has military value. But it’s good PR.
Yes
The US had vastly more competent senior officials during Iraq or Afghanistan or Vietnam, and were still running around like headless chickens. They now have a cabinet of dunces fighting against an enemy more prepared than any of the previous ones. It appears that they are currently following the hallowed strategy known as not having a plan.
I knew Trump purging the military and intelligence apparati of competent warmongers would end up biting him in the keister. Having yes-men and loyalists above anything else gives such a feeling of, oh, I dunno, like this sort of thing has happened before in the history of humankind. Some medieval king or a Chinese emperor or something has definitely done something this catastrophically asinine. Or perhaps it was a Roman emperor!
This happened during the Vietnam War. Generals were afraid to tell Lyndon Johnson the truth, and so gave him wildly inflated numbers of NV and Vietcong casualties. That is why he was gobsmacked over the Tet Offensive and decided to not run for another term.
Or perhaps it was a Roman emperor!
I think that’s the one! At least I remember them doing the roman salute.
(Ik it’s not actually from Rome, but that’s less funny)
Watching a raging alcoholic TV host conduct a major war was truly incredible.
The US officials are not used to a country that actually has citizens that support their leadership.
was this not also true of venezuela?
Yes, very much so.
The blessing and the curse of the west is that they don’t look at problems systemically
Maybe Trump should avoid convertibles after pissing off deep state factions.
