Trump Has Opened a Pandora's Box

Sunday, June 22, 2025

Edward Luce, Financial Times: How this unfolds, and who gets to diagnose whether Iran's actions are token or lethal, is largely out of Trump's hands. This leaves him as the most powerful military actor in the Middle East but potentially a hollow one. Power is about the ability to shape events. Trump is largely their prisoner.

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Without consulting Congress, and in probable contravention of international law, Trump has taken a fateful gamble. Whether he has fully digested this fact or not, he is now committed to seeing this through to the end. Iran and Israel will have at least as big a say as Trump in deciding when and how that happens.

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Poor Donald Trump thinks that Pandora's Box is someone's vagina.

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2025-06-22 01:56 PM | Reply

Might drive the price of oil up enough to make fracking worthwhile again. Lewzer needs to get on filling that SPR back up like he said he was going to.

#2 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-06-22 02:04 PM | Reply

W opened it with his "preemptive action" BS. We were told it wouldn't take long, that hopefully they got Saddam in the first strike, and even after we found him and executed him we were in the mess for 20 years

#3 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-06-22 02:08 PM | Reply

We were told it wouldn't take long, that hopefully they got Saddam in the first strike, and even after we found him and executed him we were in the mess for 20 years

#3 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-06-22 02:08 PM | Reply | Flag: MMMHHHMMM

We nonstop bombed Iraq for 2 weeks... 1700 sorties... and expected to be greeted as liberators...

mission accomplished...

#4 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2025-06-22 05:57 PM | Reply