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US uses hundreds of Tomahawk missiles on Iran, alarming some at Pentagon
(www.militarytimes.com)
this post was submitted on 27 Mar 2026
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Eh ... I don't know.
Why then start a war with Iran of all countries, one of Russia's allies? I think a complete Russian puppet would start a war with a neutral country, or better yet one of Russia's many enemies. War with Denmark over Greenland would have been the move for a total Russian puppet. Set NATO at each other's throats, waste NATO resources, leave Russia's allies alone.
Now, for sure, he does have quite a lot of Russian influence ... but I don't think Putin is the only puppeteer with a hand up this puppet's ass. Trump basically listens to and believes whoever was the most recent person to talk to him, the most recent person to give him complements, the most recent person who took him seriously and inflated his ego even more.
Occam's razer would probably cut this down to:
-Trump is a senile old man -Trump likely has Narcissistic Personality Disorder (possibly way more) -Trump is easily manipulated by his obvious levers of pride and greed -Trump has done plenty of things that have made him an easy blackmail target
This just makes him a puppet for anyone that has a higher IQ than him, which is not a high bar to clear.
There's the added complexity here that Trump can't make his own decisions anymore due to his dementia. He just does whatever the last person he talked to said.
It's why after talking to Netanyahu he does what Israel wants. After talking to Putin, he helps Russia. Even after attacking Iran, a Russian ally, he removed sanctions on Russian oil in the midst of the economic shitstorm he made, which effectively gives them billions of dollars again. So overall, it was actually a net win for Russia.
Hell, after talking to Mamdani, he started praising him, talking about how much good he's going to do for New Yorkers, and even repeating some of his talking points. Trump doesn't have any original thoughts anymore.
He's been unfiltered for as long as I've heard of him. Been in dementia that long?
There's a difference between unfiltered, and not being able to follow conversations, maintaining conversations, and just repeating what someone else says.
Trump has always meandered when talking bullshit, but it has gotten much worse in the last few months. It is very clear if you look back and compare side by side.
Easily justifiable and believable to the magat base, waste material that could be used against Russia either directly or via Ukraine, further political infighting/deadlock in the US, further degrade US’ standing with allies/global community, more global chaos, inflict the same economic stress Russia is dealing with on the world and on it goes. Russia sent over a million of its own citizens to the meat grinder for its own ends in Ukraine, you think it gives a fuck about its “allies” if it means furthering their ends?
And remove sanctions / increase price of Russian oil.
The war did raise the price of oil, and make buying Russian oil more popular - so helping his buddy Putin that way.