The admin might have been readier had it not chopped back the State Dept’s #MiddleEast desk, gotten rid of its #oil & #gas experts & eliminated its dedicated #Iran office. The admin handicapped its own #NationalSecurity Council by firing staff members, some at the behest of a #conspiracy-minded […]
Even as the bombs fell, the administration, concerned about #gasoline prices, waived #sanctions on some Iranian #oil, “giving #Iran’s war effort against the #US a boost,” as The Washington Post reported. Area experts were shocked when the administration proved unprepared for Iran’s partial […]
#Trump called for an international coalition to open the #StraitOfHormuz, then said the United States could go it alone, & then said the waterway would somehow “open itself.” He claimed that the United States had already won the #war, that the war would end soon, & that the war would end “when I […]
The goal was #RegimeChange — until it wasn’t. The demand was unconditional surrender — until it wasn’t. Deadlines were issued & then erased. Threats of total destruction were made & then pulled back. #Iran’s #nuclear program was a casus belli in February despite that fact that we were told by […]
It is the #IranWar that has most vividly demonstrated the scope of the problem. In this conflict, the most potent antagonist has been the admin’s own incoherence.
The #Trump administration chose to wage a #war without deciding on its aims, mapping out a strategy, planning for contingencies or […]
In that respect, Trump’s 2nd term is different from his first. In 2020, he could confabulate about the election result or babble about treating Covid with injections of disinfectant. But he could not translate his fantasies into reality—at least not usually [exception∶ #Jan6]. In the 2nd term […]
This does not mean that every individual in the government is emotionally or psychologically unstable. Nor is it a clinical diagnosis of #Trump himself. The issue is that the admin as a whole lacks a consistent attachment to #reality & the ability to organize its thinking coherently. Trump’s […]
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It has been clear for a long time that #Trump is a person with a disorganized mind & a disordered personality. What the past few months & especially the past few weeks brought into focus is how his pathologies have cascaded downward & outward through his admin. They have become […]
More Crimes against Humanity in Israel than grains of sand in the Sinai Desert
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