"“A whole #civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.”
These are the utterances of a man casting about for an act of sufficient magnitude to substitute for the coherent strategy he never bothered to contemplate. The trajectory they trace — from rhetorical escalation to intensified bombardment to potentially something indiscriminate or far worse — deserves a degree of serious #examination that major #media outlets are just beginning to realize. Understanding that trajectory requires grasping, above all, the particular #trap into which American power has #sleepwalked.
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A leader who entered a #war he did not understand, in pursuit of objectives he had not reconciled, and who now confronts a situation in which every available #exit diminishes the political #narrative he has staked his #identity on, is a genuinely #dangerous figure to place at the apex of #nuclear decision-making."

https://newlinesmag.com/argument/the-last-temptation-of-trump-at-the-end-of-a-failed-war/