"Personalist regimes always suffer from this, but then on top of that we have a personalist regime built on a man who is not just ignorant and malign, he is properly non compos mentis. Pretending he's capable of holding public office and giving orders at all is a kind of mass delusion."

~ Andy Craig

#Trump #Iran #war #madness #dementia #insanity #authoritarianism #strongman
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Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social)

Personalist regimes always suffer from this, but then on top of that we have a personalist regime built on a man who is not just ignorant and malign, he is properly non compos mentis. Pretending he's capable of holding public office and giving orders at all is a kind of mass delusion. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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"Donald Trump is lost in his fog of war. ...

The belief that coherent sense can be made out of Trump’s shuffling words is a weakness of the rational mind that refuses to accept the impulses of the inveterate demagogue for what they are."

~ Sidney Blumenthal

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/14/trump-iran-vietnam

Trump faces a ‘personal Vietnam’ in Iran

He is stuck in a quagmire. His goals are elusive. His bombing does not force a surrender. He has no exit strategy. Good morning, Vietnam

The Guardian