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  • In his first term, Trump had made a (horrible) deal with the Taliban to get out of Afghanistan, and Trump had shamefully abandoned the US’s Kurdish allies in Syria. A reasonable person would think that Trump was pretty committed to reduce US involvement in the Middle East.

    So many of Trump’s “promises” were transparently false. Trump not going to war with Iran actually seemed pretty credible, at the time.


  • At least he’s bombing brown people amiright?

    It was fairly explicitly said that Trump’s staff was trying to distract Trump from invading Greenland. It seems an obvious guess that the distraction offered was Venezuela and Iran.

    Trump invading Greenland could have meant war with the EU. So in a quite literal sense, Trump is now bombing brown Iranians instead of white Europeans.


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    Trump was isolationist and did not start any wars in his first term, and campaigned on isolationism not starting wars in his second term. It was actually quite reasonable, even for non-MAGA people, to expect Trump to not start any wars in his second term.

    Though I guess the Iran war is ultimately a result of Trump being a mentally declining 78-year-old, losing his grip and impulse control. But going from that to concluding Trump would start a war with Iran was non-trivial.