Wie Trump die USA in den Krieg gegen den Iran führte (Geschenkartikel)

Thanks for posting this; the piece was very well-reported and disturbing.

Great article, thank you for sharing! This stood out to me:

“General Caine replied: “Sir, this is, in my experience, standard operating procedure for the Israelis. They oversell, and their plans are not always well-developed. They know they need us, and that’s why they’re hard-selling.”

Basically what we’ve all known to be true since the beginning of this war.

Nobody should get to sit down with a POTUS – particularly if they are trying to sell him on U.S. involvement in a major war – unless his team has first been briefed in advance and in detail on their case for said war.

And before that meeting ever takes place, said team needed to have already marshaled the resources needed to evaluate the accuracy of the intel and the feasibility of the plans being put forth. NOT after the fact.

Any POTUS – particularly THIS POTUS – would need to hear opposing viewpoints *in real time* as Netanyahu was making his case. If he was spinning fantasies about Kurdish liberators of Tehran or whatever other nonsense, then somebody needed to be a) prepared and b) in the room to say „this is nonsense“, „our intel contradicts this“, etc.

Now maybe it wouldn’t have made a lick of difference for this irrational POTUS. But the fact that this preliminary prep work didn’t seem to happen and that fact-checking of Netanyahu only happened after the fact is an example of a White House that has no idea how to manage the most powerful executive office in the world.