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[-] VladimirLimeMint@lemmygrad.ml 37 points 3 days ago
[-] Maeve@lemmygrad.ml 29 points 3 days ago

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?

[-] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 3 days ago

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!"

[-] Maeve@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 days ago

I like elderberry...๐Ÿ™ˆ

[-] EmDash@lemmygrad.ml 34 points 3 days ago

So Trump's plan is to abduct or kill heads of state and assume their governments will collapse? Is it literally that stupid?

[-] big_spoon@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 2 days ago

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

[-] shreditdude0@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 3 days ago

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.

[-] Aria@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 days ago

Doubt they think it has military value. But it's good PR.

[-] SouffleHuman@lemmy.ml 32 points 3 days ago

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.

[-] shreditdude0@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 3 days ago

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.

[-] DonLongSchlong@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 3 days ago

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)

[-] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Watching a raging alcoholic TV host conduct a major war was truly incredible.

[-] ArcticFoxSmiles@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 3 days ago

The US officials are not used to a country that actually has citizens that support their leadership.

[-] 6kb_@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 days ago

was this not also true of venezuela?

[-] ArcticFoxSmiles@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 days ago

Yes, very much so.

[-] RindoGang@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The blessing and the curse of the west is that they don't look at problems systemically

[-] davel@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 3 days ago

Maybe Trump should avoid convertibles after pissing off deep state factions.

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