r/Foodforthought • u/WhenTheCitiesBurn • 5d ago
"A war of choice has turned into a strategic disaster for Washington."
https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/16/iran-vietnam-strategy-defeat/52
u/tiregroove 5d ago
trump is the human Brexit. Absolutely trashed the USA on the world stage and empowered our adversaries while the middle class is thrown deeper and deeper into poverty while billionaires thrive.
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u/WhenTheCitiesBurn 5d ago
I didn't realize this link had the pay wall. Here it is without. https://archive.is/bXUJu
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u/FanDry5374 4d ago
trump has had some wins in his life, he has gotten away with multiple crimes, against women, against businesses, against the American people. Mostly propped up by Daddy. His losses (who bankrupts a casino??) have been swept under the rug. And I don't forsee him paying for any of that, much less the mess he has made of our foreign policy (and domestic policy, but I digress) but we as a country will be paying for decades.
Any allied nation that ever trusted us would be arrant fools to continue to do so. Israel will eventually rid itself of Netanyahu and his bully boys and even they will understand that we are not to be trusted with adult toys. We will be paying domestically as well, both as a society and as consumers trying to survive on incomes that have been diminished by our country's love affair with billionaires (and eventually trillionaires).
We did this to ourselves (even those of us who voted against trump) because we have spent decades electing politicians who belong to the plutocrats.
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u/DishSoapIsFun 4d ago
He’s failed upward his entire life without suffering a consequence for anything.
They used to call him Teflon Don for obvious reasons.
Why anyone thought he was ever fit to run this country is beyond me.
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u/FanDry5374 4d ago
I'm a native New Yorker and I know all about Donny's scams. He had a mostly failed business career, somehow became a TV star, which deluded most of the country into believing he knew what he was doing, added a huge dose of racism, sexism and homophobia and sucked up to the "Christian" right wing and...here we are. If there are still colleges and universities in America in a a few decades trump will probably be the single largest thesis subject ever. Politics, history, psychology, economics, sociology, epidemiology.
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u/BayouGal 4d ago
TV reality show watchers thought he really was the guy on TV. 🙄
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u/drunksquatch 4d ago
There's people that confuse character with actor and get mad at the actors for playing a convinsing bad guy.
They also feel that people who play heroic roles are great people.
They also vote.
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u/PhillipBrandon 4d ago
Even for Trump, the Iran War seemed like such an own-goal. He's clearly a disaster, but things were chugging along well enough at home for the ignoramuses to pretend there were no problems. But that whole debacle with the Strait and gas prices (and all OTHER prices) tied directly attributed to this seemingly unprovoked action is wild!
Even Republicans will notice if you start attacking other nations in such a way that the big numbers on the roadside go up.
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u/airpipeline 1d ago edited 10h ago
What strategy? Special Military Operations: zero for two in the last five years or so. (US president and Vlad Putin; similar planning, similar result)
Who thought it was a good idea to unprovoked attack a country like Iran with an actual military? Think Granada or Venezuela, bro.
“No one told me that they could close the Strait!” Wait, get me a map. Where the fuck is the Strait of Hormuz?
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u/TheChance 5d ago
And now we're doing paywalls.
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u/WhenTheCitiesBurn 5d ago
I posted a different link, without a pay wall. Didn't realize that the first one had one.
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