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this post was submitted on 28 Feb 2026
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When you fill your space with constant praise and people telling you only what you want to hear, this is the result. Generals were afraid to tell Lyndon Johnson how badly things were going in Vietnam, and kept feeding him false reports of thousand of NV and Viet Cong losses. Johnson was gobsmacked by the "impossible" Tet Offensive, which may have led to his decision not to run for another term.
Trump fired a bunch of his military advisors during his first term because they were honest with him