Mastodawn

"Or what they consider that to be. That is what makes them so unpredictable. Consequently, they couldn’t care less about international law.

Second parallel: their megalomania has led to massive military miscalculation."

#Trump #Putin #Iran #war #stupidity #megalomania #narcissism #DunningKruger
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/25/like-putin-trump-is-a-megalomaniac-in-europe-we-can-shield-ourselves-not-look-for-rational-motives

"Both Putin and Trump clearly acted out of a kind of megalomania. Their behaviour is evil and unlawful, but rational motives are not the decisive factors. Rather, Putin and Trump are primarily concerned with their own greatness. Or what they consider that to be."

~ Robert Habeck

#Trump #Putin #Iran #war #stupidity #megalomania #narcissism #DunningKruger
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Like Putin, Trump is a megalomaniac. In Europe, we can shield ourselves, not look for rational motives

I had to deal with the energy shock in Germany after Putin invaded Ukraine. The solution now is the same: buy ourselves out of the fossil fuels trap, says Robert Habeck, former vice-Chancellor of Germany

The Guardian

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/3/25/2374675/-Abbreviated-Pundit-Roundup-Dazzle-them-with-bullshit-won-t-cut-it-anymore?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web

Greg Dworkin quotes Acyn of MeidasTouch, who says,

"Trump on Iran: We really had regime change. This is a change in the regime because the leaders are all different. I think we can say this is regime change."

Dworkin responds:

"A 6 year old could do deeper analysis."

#Trump #Iran #war #stupidity #megalomania #narcissism #DunningKruger
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Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: 'Dazzle them with bullshit' won't cut it anymore

FOX: House conservatives erupt over Senate GOP, White House deal amid SAVE Act fight A source familiar with the Freedom Caucus' thinking also panned the prospective DHS deal House conservatives are firing a warning shot at their Republican counterparts...

Daily Kos

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a70838293/iran-war-trump-82nd-airborne/

"This is the first war of my lifetime that lacks even a coherent phony justification. It's also the first war of my lifetime in which the president who launched it is simultaneously engaged in a desperate search for a trapdoor through which he can escape."

~ Charles Pierce

#Trump #Iran #war #stupidity #megalomania #narcissism #DunningKruger
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This Is the First War of My Lifetime That Lacks Even a Phony Justification

Trump is sending the 82nd Airborne Division to the Middle East, but I wouldn’t have been surprised if they had been ordered to turn around and fly back when they were halfway there.

Esquire

"Especially in an administration so driven by the whims of one man, that man’s ignorance and unearned confidence can have a profound, even catastrophic effect. In the Iran war, we can see Trump’s ignorance operating at multiple levels from the general to the specific, each of which has its own consequences."

#Trump #Iran #war #stupidity #megalomania #narcissism #DunningKruger
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https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/a-dunning-kruger-war-courtesy-of

"We have ourselves a Dunning-Kruger president, one who is supremely confident in his abilities on a range of topics where he is completely ignorant. And now he has taken us into a Dunning-Kruger war, defined by that fatal combination of ignorance and confidence."

~ Paul Waldman

#Trump #Iran #war #stupidity #megalomania #narcissism #DunningKruger
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A Dunning-Kruger War, Courtesy of the Dunning-Kruger President

Ignorance plus overconfidence gets you the Iran War.

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