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minus-squareSergio@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·4 months ago Someone should have told him it wasn’t going to work out. Heck, they probably did, and he decided he was smarter than them all. NYT had an article about the decision to go to war. It’s very “first draft of history” but interesting reading: https://archive.md/pffb3 https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/us/politics/trump-iran-war.html Basically, he surrounded himself with sycophants, so naturally they all told him that whatever he decided was the right answer and/or they would support him no matter what. Future generations will use this as an example of how NOT to do things.
NYT had an article about the decision to go to war. It’s very “first draft of history” but interesting reading:
https://archive.md/pffb3
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/us/politics/trump-iran-war.html
Basically, he surrounded himself with sycophants, so naturally they all told him that whatever he decided was the right answer and/or they would support him no matter what. Future generations will use this as an example of how NOT to do things.