Experts query ‘mix-up of priorities’ as president plays golf, posts old pictures and repeats details of Bill Maher feud

More than two weeks into the US-Israel war on Iran, and the conflict appears at risk of spiraling out of control.

Back home, Donald Trump’s behavior also appears chaotic. A foreign conflict typically brings somber reflection from leaders: in Trump’s case, it has brought a stream of behavior that has defied norms and raised eyebrows over his state of mind.

Take last Sunday, for example: the Pentagon solemnly announced that a seventh US service member had been killed in the Iran conflict. Trump spent the day playing golf in Florida, where he appeared to be wearing the same baseball cap he wore during a dignified transfer ritual of dead military members on Saturday.

That same day, Trump spoke at a “Shield of the Americas” summit, alongside a group of Latin American leaders. He told heads of countries, including El Salvador and Honduras, that Marco Rubio, his secretary of state, has “a language advantage over me”, because Rubio speaks Spanish.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    14 hours ago

    He’s too used to countries not falling for sunk cost and being willing to walk away to mitigate further damage…

    He killed a literal “supreme leader” and caused a power vacuum where everyone is desperate to establish dominance by showing their feverance to fight what is quite literally a holy war admitted by the three main participants.

    Iran isn’t going to let this go anytime soon. And US and Israel can’t win a war of attrition when we spend 100x the money shooting down what Iran launches. They can keep launch shaed drones from fortified positions in their own territory. They don’t even need forward deployment to hit what they’ve been hitting.

    Any attempt to invade will be a modern d-day. Anything crossing the border will see a constant stream of drones, and everyone that gets thru makes it easier for the next.

    And the only way to get enough bodies for that futile attempt is a US draft. With Trump’s obsession with state voter records, I really wouldn’t be surprised to see them try to institute a draft and almost exclusively take Dem voters or any other demographic they don’t want.

    These days, they’ll likely blame AI if anyone questions it.