Analysis: Israel, et al. "appear to be once again successfully persuading the hopelessly vacuous, ignorant, & delusional US president that...territorial losses will cause the [downfall of] the Iranian government".
"A US initiative to seize territory" seems all but certain.
"US ground forces clearly are preparing to land somewhere in the Persian Gulf, & this could well be directly or also on the Iranian coast."
Source: Mouin Rabbani 27 Mar substack
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I don’t know, I feel like I’ve been hearing about these ‘boots on the ground’ (“US ground forces”) for so long that I wonder if something’s happened to them or maybe they’ve gone to ground somewhere else? Otherwise what’s keeping them?
Couple of things:
1 The troops are on their way (that takes days, weeks)
2 the pattern is to buy time: threaten... pretend to be interested in peace.... start talks.... attack.
Plus, Trump is waaaayyyy out of his depth, desperate that he's losing, & full of hubris & rage, so even more unpredictable than usual.
Further development re troops
The problem is, Trump is surrounded by people who won't tell him that he's losing. It's not clear that he knows.
I suspect he thought he already won, and he wants to win again, he's just frustrated that it's taking so long for the troops to get there or for Iran to cave to give him that next win.
He's an impatient little brat, but I don't think he's engaged with reality enough to know he's losing, just like in elections and court cases where he lost.
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