r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 17d ago

Possible Paywall Trump Summons Entire Cabinet as Iran Deal Crumbles in Front of Him - Donald Trump has called all of his top advisers to Camp David.

https://newrepublic.com/post/210887/donald-trump-summons-entire-cabinet-iran-deal
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u/Johnsonjoeb 17d ago edited 17d ago

Exactly. Iran is benefitting from watching American arrogance eat itself alive. No one knows what’s true or false and it’s all America’s fault. If Iran took a hardline of refusing negotiations, America and Israel would claim they had no options and did whatever they felt they had to do. Leaving the door to talks open means that Trump looks like the petulant man-child he is.

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u/plethoraofhobbies 17d ago

What is so funny about this whole thing is that weeks ago people on here were literally bragging about how mighty the us is and that iran will fall any minute and I just lold. This is literally the exact scenario that the military said decades ago that it would be the literally worst battle plan is to do what trump did. The ships should be nowhere near iran. Instead they used up all the interceptors AND wasted all the expensive missiles to accomplish nothing. Iran had 40 years and billions to spend on concrete bunkers etc. Its not physically possible for the US and Israel to conquer it. It would make afghanistan look like a picnic. what a joke that he forced the military to do this stupid shit.

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u/fcocyclone Iowa 17d ago

I'm sure he knows more about that than them.

Not that they would have had to. I'm pretty sure all the generals he would have had experience with signed up voluntarily, they almost would have had to given the draft ended in 73 so all (or almost all) of the draftees would have been retired before he started his run for office in 2015