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#4 | Posted by Zed at 2026-04-09 12:38 PM
Everyone knows that Trump is mentally impaired. Netanyahu isn't the only one exploiting that.
Apparently not "everyone" knows that, or they are just using it to further promote the "ZioNazis" / "Nuttyahoo" line, that is now joining "Blue MAGA" with "woke Right" factions.
Reality is that Trump has never in his life did anything that he didn't think would benefit Trump (hence, "transactional") and, in fact, Netanyahoo was undermined several times by Trump's narcissistic desire to take credit for any "success" in the Middle East, e.g., in June 2025 when Trump stopped a devastating Israeli attack on Iranian IRGC and likely real long-planned "regime change" in Iran.
www.latimes.com - Trump never actually had a plan - Jonah Goldberg, LAT / Dispatch, 2026-03-31
|------- ... How could the man they've defended as a genius for so long make what is in their eyes such a monumental blunder? ...
For some ... blame lands on the Jews, or Israel... This is how Joe Kent explained it. It's Tucker Carlson's explanation too: We're in this war because Israel's prime minister "demanded it." ...
Now, I think some of these arguments are ahistorical, antisemitic, deranged nonsense (i.e. Joe Kent's fevered anti-Israel paranoia). Trump has said "no" to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu more than once, including during this war. But some claims have a patina of merit. If you buy the claim the war is a disaster, then the people around Trump have some culpability.
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Reality is quite different. Netanyahu was reluctant to involve Trump again - MBS of Saudi Arabia, seeing Iran weakened, wanted to "crush" Iran and end the longest war in human history - 14 centuries of war between Sunni and Shi'a:
www.nytimes.com - Crown Prince sees a "historic opportunity" to remake the region, according to people briefed by U.S. officials on the conversations. - 2026-03-24
|------- Prince Mohammed, the people familiar with the discussions said, has argued that Iran poses a long-term threat to the Gulf that can only be eliminated by getting rid of the government. ... -------|
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www.joemygod.com - Lindsey Graham "Giddy" About Having Coached Netanyahu On Convincing Trump To Start Bombing Iran - 2026-03-07
|------- To help make the case on Iran, Graham traveled several times to Israel in recent weeks... He spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, coaching him on how to lobby the president for action. -------|
Here's one conservative nailing what Trump is:
thedispatch.com - Trump Is Anything but Unpredictable - 2026-04-10, The Dispatch
|------- I have been advising observers not to make the mistake of overcomplicating Donald Trump...
He's a simple man whose actions are most directly and accurately described as the ordinary daily application of his vices: laziness, vindictiveness, greed, vanity, arrogance, cowardice, and, above all, stupidity. He is a rage-addled dimwit with a savantic gift for manipulating lesser fools and a vulnerability to manipulation by men who are similarly vicious but more capable: Vladimir Putin, J.D. Vance, Stephen Miller, even one or two of his idiot children. Stronger men can push him around, and weaker men succeed by flattering him. His enemies can manipulate him at least as easily as his allies.
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