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Originally Posted by downquark1
So I told you a Trump betrayal was on the cards. This was the US' most justifiable type of intervention, anything else will be harder.
Next, it depends if Iran will escalate in retaliation and if Netanyahu wants to push harder or if Iran will drop it and lick wounds.
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Now let’s not overstate your predictive prowess old boy. What you actually said was:
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Originally Posted by downquark1
Trump is very close with Israel and is currently bickering with his anti-war base so it looks like a betrayal may be on the cards.
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Which as predictions go is fairly well hedged
It’s certainly true that Trump has betrayed his MAGA base though, and it probably oughtn’t be such a surprise. Trump is a malignant narcissist and ultimately he’s powerless in the face of anything that causes him narcissistic injury. Netanyahu has looked strong and decisive on Iran, and in Trump’s low-brow world view, someone else being strong makes Trump look weak. And he can’t handle that. Hence he immediately started associating himself with what Israel was doing in Iran and talking about what ‘we’ are doing when in reality, until now, US involvement has almost certainly gone no further than a minimal-to-modest contribution to anti-air defence.