#Trump & #Netanyahu: "the performance of dominance is central to their authority. In that framework, a negotiated exit is not merely a strategic setback but a form of emasculation, one that their entire political identity is organized to prevent"

#Iran #Westworld
https://newlinesmag.com/argument/the-last-temptation-of-trump-at-the-end-of-a-failed-war/
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The Last Temptation of Trump at the End of a Failed War

The president has backed himself into a corner where making a deal with Iran risks appearing, in his eyes, like a humiliating failure

New Lines Magazine

"to be the first American president since Truman to cross that threshold would be, in Trump’s own terms, to place himself beyond the reach of historical diminishment"

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