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Trump threatens to destroy all of Iran’s power, oil and water facilities as ‘retribution’
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Retribution for what? Not immediately kowtowing to the wounded narcissist?
Literally doing the classic narcissist "look what you made me do!"
He’s used to manhandling 13-year-old girls.
Fighting back.
Practically since Reagan, it has been crazy to see how many times the Iranian Revolutionary Guard has done exactly that. The Ayatollah worked with Rumsfeld. He worked with Bush. He worked with Obama. He worked with Trump the first time. He worked with Biden. It's amazing how many times Iranian leadership could be bought off with the promise of sanctions relief or was willing to turn the other check in the face of a political assassination or a stuxnet computer virus or a frigate seizure.
Whipped dogs rolled over less frequently than the Iranian government, until we straight up started putting bullets into the heads of their senior leadership. Now the only people left to run the country are the real, actual, not-fucking-around revolutionary diehards.
Yep, it's just baffling how this cat that we backed further and further into the corner started acting out. Who could've seen that coming?
Yup, that’s exactly it.
It's not sound logic, but everyone needs to understand how a narcissist thinks these days.
They end conflicts based on when they think they have an advantage. Prior goals aren't important just being able to declare victory.
If/when the other side doesn't stop when you tell them to, the narcissist acts and truly believes a new conflict has just started, and they are now legitimately the victim and not an aggressor.
In their heads, that's reality.
So yeah, it fucking sucks and shouldn't be like this.
But a narcissist is in charge of America's military, and that's how he thinks. And if no one stops him it's going to get worse.
No matter what happens in Iran, he's going to twist it as justification to push further somewhere else. Either because he gets what he wants, or he doesn't and feels he needs to save face by looking strong somewhere else.
For as long as he's in office he'll keep doing this to other countries that have natural resources