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Trump's Kobayashi Maru (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 day ago by nymnympseudonym@piefed.social to c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world

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Iran may have found the move Trump can never play

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https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03/22/world/iran-war-oil-trump

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Trump can’t back down. He has no other method of operation than application of further force to make his opponent yield.

You will do what I want, you’re making me do this. This is your fault I have to hurt you more. Anything you do in retaliation is your fault and not a justifiable reaction to what I’m doing to you and I will hurt you harder for everything you do to defend yourself.

He’s an abuser.

If he were to stop, that would mean losing face and the possibility be were wrong.

No narcissist can do that.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

Sure he can, narcissists do it all the time. Wallstreet even coined the term "TACO" because he does it so often.

All he has to do is declare victory and move on to something else.

[–] GuyIncognito@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 hours ago

Maybe, but in this case the country whose intelligence agency ran the child pimp from whom Trump got his young girls is the country that would have to fight on alone if the US declared victory and left. Even if you put that bit of leverage aside, there's massive bipartisan support for Israel in congress and across the US ruling class in general. Thus, they're stuck. Iran has grabbed israel by the belt and is punching it in the face.

[–] Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 1 points 8 hours ago

He has declared victory already, but problem is that Iran was little bit more than he could chew, and they are not going to back down. Only thing Trump can do is try to hit harder and that would not end until he uses nuclear weapons. And I’m sure that is the path he is willing to go.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

The problem this time is that he has already declared victory and tried to move on but the straights are still closed. He can't think beyond his next meal.

[–] ChristerMLB@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago

Yeah, going into a negotiation with a very public message of KISS THE BOOT OR SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES will generally have people going pretty far to keep it from looking like you're getting your way. It's a matter of dignity, and a lot of people take that quite seriously.

[–] Akh@lemmy.world 67 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Imagine all it takes is the US and Israel to legit say say sorry to Iran and show Iran respect in the future to restore energy security and know you are fucked because of pride

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 1 points 2 hours ago

I wouldn't be surprised if Iran responded to complete capitulation with demands and kept the strait closed like a toll booth regardless. They're not "good people just trying to exist" like some people would tell you, the IRGC is just middle eastern MAGA.

[–] ajoebyanyothername@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

Given the people involved, 'all' is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence.

[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They did just defeat Trump ... he has no respect for anything.

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He respects Vladimir Putin. Or at least his cock.

[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 2 points 20 hours ago

That's envy. He dreams of being like Putin ... of course MAGA basically made him that way.

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

LIES! FALSE!
What about the respect for the hard work child traffickers put in? What about the redirect for other dictators? What about the respect for other child rapists?

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