• DragonAce@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    He chickened out because the whole post is a fucking lie. He never spoke to anyone, he just decided hes done with the war in Iran because the other countries were mean to him and refused to help. So hes doing is typical routine of throwing a temper tantrum and then taking his ball and going home.

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      2 months ago

      Of course it’s a lie. Everything he says is a lie. But this wasn’t because he couldn’t find help. This was because the credible Iranian threat of bombing every oil field in the middle east was enough to get someone (the US oligarchs?) to tell him to back off. They know that if the oil stops flowing everything will collapse and they will loose billions. It’s always about money in the US. The reaction of the stock markets is what seems to matter most. And honestly I don’t care why he’s turning around. If he pulled out entirely and said it’s because God told him to I’d be delighted. Just stop the madness, please.

      Then again, it is also possible this is just the well-worn US/Israeli tactic of “can we have a cease fire to restock our weapon supplies?”

      And to my original point, there are countless reasons he’s unfit for the job, and a sickening waste of a human being, but any sign of backing away from this disaster is a good thing, not something to criticize.

      • EldritchFemininity@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        I think people also don’t believe at all that he’s actually backing away from this in any way, shape, or form. He’ll go ahead and say that he is, and then later this week he’ll bomb an orphanage or something and claim that talks with Iran have fallen apart and how unreasonable they’re being because he gave them such a great peace deal, blah blah blah, etc.

        Just like how he could’ve ended the war in Ukraine in a week if they had just taken his generous peace deal of ceding a bunch of land to Russia.