NonilexMar 10

Trump's #Iran spin falls flat

#Trump has spent a lifetime talking himself out of tough spots. But in the #war with Iran, his trusty technique of sowing confusion to postpone reckonings is beginning to fail.

Ten days in, Trump still hasn’t settled on a consistent rationale for why he went to war. Now, he’s hinting that peace might soon be at hand—even while he & top aides simultaneously warn the fighting might get more intense & last longer.

#warmonger #law #geopolitics
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/10/politics/trump-messaging-endgame-iran-war

Why Trump can’t explain the start — or the endgame — of the war in Iran

President Donald Trump has spent a lifetime talking himself out of tough spots. But in the war with Iran, his trusty technique of sowing confusion to postpone reckonings is beginning to fail.

CNN
Show threadFinchHaven sfbaMar 10

@Nonilex

There is, for some reason, a global intellectual mindset that #DonaldTrump is some sort of god tier, twelve-dimensional chess player and that his tactics are beyond the understanding of mere humans

#GlobalLeaders seem to be particularly enamored of this viewpoint, even though it's clearly hallucinatory

#Trump is nothing more than a profoundly disturbed, acute narcissist and a demonstrated, serial, pathological liar

Trump has the attention span of a goldfish and merely leaps to the last thing the last #TrumpWhisperer said to him before they left the room

Global leaders need to come up to speed, and quickly

Trump is *not* what they want to think he is

#Iran #IranWar #WorldWarIII #PeteHegseth #BenjaminNetanyahu

Show threadPotMetPetunias
@FinchHaven @Nonilex Thank you, this made me laugh: "There is, for some reason, a global intellectual mindset that #DonaldTrump is some sort of god tier, twelve-dimensional chess player and that his tactics are beyond the understanding of mere humans"
Mar 10 at 4:15pmWeb