Of course he cannot stop it now. The world and it's history is way bigger than the current blip that is trump.
this post was submitted on 13 Mar 2026
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Modern? Nobody remembers the blitzkrieg?
EVERY war ever fought was going to be over in a month with an overwhelming victory, and yet, it NEVER happens.
Except in the first US gulf war, back in the early 90s. (Kuwait was attacked by Iraq. The USA spent months preparing and then three days attacking. Then stopped when Iraq surrendered.)
Or the fall of the USSR. (Happened in about a month, no major fighting.)
Or the Russian annexation of Crimea.
It isn't that short military exercises never yield results. It's that wars persist until both attacker and defender believe peace is the best tactic.
The USA bombing a country for whom fighting the USA is essentially their national myth is possibly the dumbest thing that my country has ever done.
War is a choice, he could end it right now.
He can choose to no longer shoot at Iran, but he can not make Iran stop shooting at the US. It takes only one site to keep a war going.
Good thing Iran has never struck at the US then. Although "good" might not be appropriate at this point.
The Middle East has been in constant threats and instability for the past century.
Donny boy has been living peacefully golfing and surrounded by yes men.
He's kicked a lot of bee hives.
The plan was to distract from the Epstein files at any means necessary.
That fat cunt is unable to keep it's trousers clean from it's own shit.
So how the fuck anyone thinks that that waffling pile of dementia riddled syphilis can unfuck the murdering of schoolgirls in this Epstein war is laughable at best.
This dude started presidency with zero major crises, and has created at least three.
that's like guessing how many jelly beans are in a jar.
there's at least three!
I mean, he could stop the war tomorrow by handing himself over to the Iranian authorities.
Trump, as an individual may not have a way out. Remember, Epstein was Mossad-trained and probably shared a lot of useful dirt with Israel.
But there is always a path to peace; and in this case it starts with the US backing off. Iran doesn’t have much capacity for war beyond protecting itself.
Exactly the same as how there’s a way for Russia to have peace in Ukraine.
The implication I haven't seen explicitly mentioned in the article (which it should be! Bad article) is "there is no way for Trump to stop the war without losing face and thus his power".
The reason they keep going is because otherwise they have to admit they were wrong. And probably not only wrong, but knowingly wrong, which equals malicious. And admitting that you're malicious is bad, even with your most loyal supporters. The only way to not have that happen is to just keep going and act as if everything is fine, which is what's happening.
The actual "path to peace" is very very simple, you just have to retreat your troops. It's supremely unlikely Iran will attack halfway around the globe with their infrastructure.
I don't know if just stopping the attack is going to work this time. Iran was significantly attacked and will want some form of retribution in order to remind the USA to never do this again.
The USA and Israel will need to pay costs for peace.
They've backed on tons of things before without admitting any wrongdoing, I don't see how this is different
The implication I haven’t seen explicitly mentioned in the article (which it should be! Bad article) is “there is no way for Trump to stop the war without losing face and thus his power
basically what I was trying to get at. But I'm not sure that it's a matter of losing face, and rather that Netanyahu is holding some damning evidence (of the epstein files variety) over him.
as mentioned on other posts, the easiest way to deal with blackmail material is to just release it all.
I'm willing to bet this is Trumps and by extension America's 3 day special operation. And I mean that down to the expectation this would all be over in 3-4 days after the extensive bombing and killing of the upper leadership in the first day.
Instead Iran was all "nah we're good, we've been preparing for this day for 15-20 years". And started fucking up the whole region.
This war can go on for years... so you are possible right.
Israel said that it worked for them, and all they want is sufficient disruption to continue their own invasions. Trump is the fool for so so many reasons.
Generally what happens when you start a forever war.
It's the only thing Republicans do other than taxcuts for the rich and fucking up the economy.
No no, they also fuck something else!
Won't somebody think of the children
Oh, we're thinking of the children 😉 - Republicans
I love how now the Israel is blamed for the US failures.
Both are at fault.
Israel is the result of failure from both the US and the UK. Pretty much the same as the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Given how rarely any corpo media holds their feet to the fire, that's almost more interesting than whether it's true.
I don’t see why he’d want it to stop. He’s been actively destroying the US for the overwhelming majority of his presidency. If he benefits the US at large, it’s major news to me. A stone rolling downhill shouldn’t be news.
You opened this can of worms, now lie in it.
He won't, he'll be long dead and we all have to live with the consequences
You opened this can of worms, now lie in it.
He's already choking in them too.
And imo, ofcourse he can end this whenever he wants to. Strategically and morally this operation makes zero sense. Not that anything he's said or un-said, or started and or ( never) ended ever did. And no, I don't think Iranians will come better out of this. It's another humanitarian disaster in the making. He's a destructive asshole. # edit Iran not Iraq ofc.
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This is a great point. It's like the super powers of the worlds leaders, just thinks its a 1+1 = 2 scenario with war. Because they are so far up their own arses, they can't see any further than their own stool..
It’s almost like there was some sort of reason why no one else was stupid enough to do this.
Remember the last world leader who said it'll be over in a few days.....
Also the heritage foundation, and people like Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon.
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