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Miles Archer

(23,686 posts)
Sat Apr 18, 2026, 04:35 PM 13 hrs ago

TRUMP hasn't "accepted" his 2020 loss. Why the F*CK would we even CONSIDER him "accepting" loss in IRAN?

Trump 'incapable' of accepting US has lost the war with Iran: Nobel laureate

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-iran-2676762102/

Paul Krugman believes that Trump is flat out unable to deal with the fallout of the war in Iran, and that it has not yet set in that the United States' intervention in the Middle East has failed. Writing in his Substack earlier Saturday, Krugman claimed, "It’s been clear for a while that the United States has basically lost this war.

"The goal was to achieve regime change, possibly to take Iran’s uranium. Neither of those is going to happen. The Iranian regime is a harder line than it was before. Iran has ended up strengthened because it’s demonstrated its ability to shut off traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.

"Well, as best I can tell, and this is all speculation now, I don’t think that Trump has taken on board, maybe he’s emotionally incapable of taking on board the reality that he screwed up, that he took us to war and lost, that he, in his mind, still thinks that America has the upper hand and that the Iranians are cowering in fear over the might of the U.S. military, and that he doesn’t need to make any concessions."

The Strait of Hormuz had briefly been opened by Iran but was again closed over a US blockade. A new closure of the Strait of Hormuz was confirmed by Iranian military operational command, Khatam Al Anbiya, with a statement accusing the US of "maritime piracy and theft".

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TRUMP hasn't "accepted" his 2020 loss. Why the F*CK would we even CONSIDER him "accepting" loss in IRAN? (Original Post) Miles Archer 13 hrs ago OP
Trump never accepted divorce from his first wife... Hugin 12 hrs ago #1
Cost enid602 10 hrs ago #2

Hugin

(37,903 posts)
1. Trump never accepted divorce from his first wife...
Sat Apr 18, 2026, 04:42 PM
12 hrs ago

I wonder which tee the US will be buried on?

Pathetic.

enid602

(9,722 posts)
2. Cost
Sat Apr 18, 2026, 07:04 PM
10 hrs ago

Let him think it’s a huge win! Give him a ticker tape parade, and that fancy arch he’s been jonesing. And one of those Nobel Prizes.

The price of him going into Iran is just too much of a price for us to pay. The loss of the petrodollar and the economy. The cost in terms of lives and treasure. The bombing of what’s left of Israel. It’s too much.

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