TLDR Trump loosed the dogs of war, screwed the pooch, and now gets to eat a dogshit sandwich. He�won on day one and lost everything.� Iran's regime literally changed — new Supreme Leader, wartime ...
  • hume_lemmy@lemmy.caEnglish
    117·
    3 个月前

    I think this article forgets how Trump effectively surrendered Afghanistan to the Taliban the last time around.

  • kmartburrito@lemmy.world
    60·
    3 个月前

    He’s never been anything but a silver spoon total loser. He’s not even a skilled criminal. Fucking bush league in every measure.

      • runner_g@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        3·
        3 个月前

        nobody loses as good as me, I’m not saying but everyone else is saying it. the best loser, the BIGGLIEST loser. Arnold Palmer, now he was a great loser, you know they say he had a really big penis, I never saw it myself it’s what people tell me, tremendous dong and tremendous loser.

        thank you for your attention to this matter.

    • hume_lemmy@lemmy.caEnglish
      7·
      3 个月前

      He expected to lose the first election. He wanted to be able to use it as proof that the system was against him, to fire up the Fox News rubes and jumpstart his new TV network. He basically wanted to lose, and instead he won.

      It’s amazing. He’s such a failure he failed at failing.

  • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world
    371·
    3 个月前

    a) This headline forgets W losing Afghanistan

    b) Fuck Nixon, but Eisenhower deserves the blame for Vietnam (admittedly one of the reasons he did that was because he thought it would give him political cover to shut McCarthyism down, but still)

    • DomeGuy@lemmy.world
      6·
      3 个月前

      The “global war on terror” ended with a rather dramatic raid that killed bin laden. And the war part of Gulf war 2 was an obvious victory.

      But winning a peace is a fuckton harder. And we haven’t done that since Vietnam.

      • Jay101@lemmy.world
        44·
        3 个月前

        The “global war on terror” ended with a rather dramatic raid that killed bin laden.

        No, they executed an accused without a trial or prosecution. In India, they had a multiyear trial before the terrorist was executed.

    • Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      3 个月前

      Like on their own? If so, then not even Gulf War 1 counts, b/c they were part of the UN coalition. I think maybe the invasion of Panama?

    • yesman@lemmy.world
      18·
      3 个月前

      Nixon was not decent. The difference was that a Senator (Goldwater) told Nixon point blank that he was getting impeached and the senate had the votes to convict and remove.

      Like most government officials “retirement” is getting fired.

      • I_Jedi@lemmy.todayEnglish
        11·
        3 个月前

        I’m pretty sure Trump would give the order to launch the nukes and kill us all in that situation.

        • switcheroo@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          3 个月前

          That’s why he’s firing the top military people. They won’t follow illegal (and reprehensible) orders, so he knows they won’t bomb blue states.

    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
      71·
      3 个月前

      I genuinely think he’s by far the most likely president in this country’s history to launch ICBMs if he knows he is fucked. Which was a conclusion myself and any non-moron also came to in 2015.

      • Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world
        21·
        3 个月前

        Did we really win? We went in there and killed a bunch of people but even today the country hates us. The truth is the US hasn’t won a war since WWII. In order to really win you have to make peace with the population after you take over. The US doesn’t do that anymore. We just kill and create more enemies.

    • GalacticSushi@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      6·
      3 个月前

      He got to resign with a presidential pension/benefits and enjoy a full pardon for all his crimes. Personally, I don’t think “retiring early and people generally don’t think highly of you” is an appropriate amount of justice to be served.