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    Jeder außer Trump versteht, was er getan hat


    Jeder außer Trump versteht, was er getan hat

    https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/trump-iran-war-allies/686423/?utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_medium=social&utm_content=edit-promo

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    1. theatlantic on

      Anne Applebaum: “For the past 14 months, few foreign leaders have been able to acknowledge that someone without any strategy can actually be president of the United States. Surely, the foreign-policy analysts murmured, Trump thinks beyond the current moment. Surely, foreign statesmen whispered, he adheres to some ideology, some pattern, some plan. Words were thrown around—*isolationism, imperialism*—in an attempt to place Trump’s actions into a historical context …

      “This week, something broke. Maybe Trump does not understand the link between the past and the present, but other people do. They can see that, as a result of decisions that Trump made but cannot explain, the Strait of Hormuz is blocked by Iranian mines and drones. They can see oil prices rising around the world and they understand that it is difficult and dangerous for the U.S. Navy to solve this problem. They can also hear the president lashing out, as he has done so many times before, trying to get other people to take responsibility, threatening them if they don’t.

      “NATO faces a ‘very bad’ future if it doesn’t help clear the strait, Trump told the *Financial Times*, apparently forgetting that the United States founded the organization and has led it since its creation in 1949. He has also said he is not asking but ordering seven countries to help. He did not specify which ones. ‘I’m demanding that these countries come in and protect their own territory because it is their territory,’ Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on the way from Florida to Washington. ‘It’s the place from which they get their energy.’ Actually it isn’t their territory, and it’s his fault that their energy is blocked.

      “But in Trump’s mind, these threats are justified: He has a problem right now, so he wants other countries to solve it. He doesn’t seem to remember or care what he said to their leaders last month or last year, nor does he know how his previous decisions shaped public opinion in their countries or harmed their interests. But they remember, they care, and they know.”

      Read more: [https://theatln.tc/1XraNf7v](https://theatln.tc/1XraNf7v)

    3. greatWrightshark on

      Yeah, because even before his brain started to rot he was incredibly stupid. He also surrounds himself with incredibly stupid people because you have to be to think that he isn’t anything but a con man and a fraud.

    5. Modano9009 on

      I know Trumps been called an idiot so often you’re kind of numb to it but he really is a stupid, stupid man. Thinking he’s the smartest person in the room when he’s actually the dumbest has been his thing since the 80s.

    6. Prize-Bumblebee-2192 on

      So sad trumpey found out he can’t demand anything of those countries.

      He thought it would be like demanding from the GOP 😂

    7. _L_R_S_ on

      The rest of the world understands what Trump has done. They saw it coming from the moment he started assaulting his neighbor Canada as soon as he took office. This is just him keeping going.

      What the rest of the world doesn’t understand is how the rest of Congress and the Senate are allowing him to do this.

      So whatever Trump has done, the US system is allowing him to do it.

      You can blame Trump for being Trump. But when the system allows him to do it then it all has to take responsibility.

      If a system like this creates a leader like this with unfettered power then the system is broken.

      Which means it is only a matter of time before the country breaks.

      So what choice are you going to make USA?

    8. citizenjones on

      And he’s absolutely planning on keeping it that way. It’s his safe space.

    9. tedecristal on

      This is one of the most clear and direct writing I’ve seen on Trump on the past months

    10. PhDinDildos_Fedoras on

      It’s kinda funny lots of Americans don’t understand how bad America looks rn. The US will never recover. There is no coming back from this.

    12. cone_snail on

      Grown man with mind of a toddler. Cannot grasp that his actions have consequences. 

      There were people that, in 2015, did not see this. They are almost as stupid as tfg. 

    13. coreychch on

      I cannot see how America – and by extension most of the world – gets out of this. All he’s managed to do is disrupt the world’s energy supplies, hasn’t managed to force any regime change in Iran or disrupt their supposed attempt at building a nuclear weapon.

      Iran are going to dig in and make sure it hurts the U.S. and Israel in particular, but we are *all* going to suffer because of 70 million dumb people who cannot see through Trumps bullshit and the fact that he’s being led around like a poodle by Netanyahu.

    14. M56_G78_H45 on

      This is when they step back and let the US learn the hard way. There has been so much economic damage in the last year and a half, this is just the latest for these countries.

    15. Ohuigin on

      Which would include the GOP, right?

      Which would mean they know exactly what Trump’s done.

      Which would mean that they would stop it.

      Which would mean that they don’t want it.

      But they do. So here we all are. The entire globe at the whim of a madman because the Republican ~~Party~~ Cult is a pedophile protecting terrorist organization.

    16. slo1111 on

      He is just simply riddled with personality disorders and he has been coddled his entire life.  Put it together an you have a man who believes he is smarter than everyone else because nobody had the courage to tell him the truth.

    17. Arctic_x22 on

      We still don’t have healthcare btw, nor infrastructure, or financial reform, nor education, nor AI regulations, Trump has done absolutely fuck-all to address any of these things.

      – Yet we can afford another forever war in the middle-east.
      – Yet we can afford golden ballrooms.
      – Yet we can afford to bail out financial fraudsters, felons, and pedophiles who are willing to suck Trump’s dick.
      – Yet we can award another $50,000,000,000.00 contract to the MIC.

      Make it make sense.

    18. ifiwereonlylesshandy on

      America is not the way it is because Trump was elected, Trump was elected because of the way America is.

      I am in no way suggesting that this is America in its entirety, but it is a great deal of people.

    19. Terrible_turtle_ on

      We elected a pathology, not a person. Dude is so completely owned my his own pathological illnesses, that he cannot see anything beyond them. He is a black hole of neediness and mental illness surrounded by other morally damaged people who only want access to power.

    20. Popular-Age-3174 on

      Don’t forget the idiots on the right are struggling as well… Remember these are extremely low IQ voters.

    21. FoxyInTheSnow on

      Good article. And for Americans who’re still waving the trump flag, the very first sentence is all they need to understand:

      “Allied leaders know that any positive gesture they make will count for nothing.”

    22. TheShipEliza on

      The guys brains are oatmeal. We are being lead by a madman and his sycophants.

    23. TheGreatLuck on

      It’s like all of society just learned about the Scorpion and the Frog yesterday

    25. agree-with-me on

      Fox News hammers the non MAGA Americans like this 20mm cannons in Saving Private Ryan. You don’t take Fox out, you got zero chance. They’re cutting us to ribbons.

    26. Worried_Monitor5422 on

      A child. They’re describing the behavior of a literal child. A very young child at that, like a young toddler. My 4 year old has a better grasp of cause and effect than Trump. 

    27. BusterStarfish on

      He understands. He doesn’t give a flying fuck. He’s never cared about anyone but himself. Not for a single second.

    28. GamerSDG on

      The problem isn’t that Trump is an idiot, but that no one in his cabinet, the Speaker of the House, or the Senate President will tell him he is wrong. Rubio is literally wearing shoes that are 2 size to big because he doesn’t want to tell Trump he is wrong about his shoe size. If he is too scared to tell him he is wrong about his shoe size, just imagine what else he is too scared to tell him he is wrong about.

      On top of that, Trump thinks he is the smartest person in the world and that no one knows more than him about anything. Everyone who voted for Trump has no fucking idea what they have done. He has just taken on a decade-long war with no allies. Which means that we are going to bear the cost in money and our troops‘ lives.

    32. Living-Pangolin-6090 on

      He’s the one who likes all the pretty songs and he likes to sing along and he likes to shoot his guns but be knows not what it means and I say hey

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