A reminder. Our politicians kept insisting we were winning the Vietnam War right up until we lost it.

https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-iran-we-won-dont-want-leave-early-2026-03-11/

@petergleick "The light at the end of the tunnel" that officials kept referring to turned out to be an oncoming train.
@petergleick The leaders of this great satanic nation will never stop believing their own bullshit until the empire collapses under the weight of cumulative self-deception.
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The US will have so many victories they'll spread over the planet. Soon it'll have victories in every content. Then the USA will even start having glorious victories on proud US soil. They'll get closer and closer to the capital and then trump will be able to admire his victories happening right outside his window.
@petergleick It's the old principle: The attacker must vanquish, the defender need only survive.
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I remember that 20 years after the fact former Secretary McNamara admitted that the Vietnam war had been a mistake.
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Another reminder, Mr Gleick.
It may turn out that the stable genius behind Trump was Putin all along.