Quote from: RE on Jun 10, 2026, 08:59 PMBut the ceasefire is still holding! 🙄

RE

Your contention that we do not have dumb people here may be correct, because what Trump is doing is so transparent that only a fool could not see it.  From which I conclude we have no shortage of fools.  The bar is low.

By all accounts Trump should be political toast by now.  But by making war Trump buys time against accountability.  The last thing Trump wants now is peace.  Trump wants lots of death.  War gives Trump the power he needs to enthrone himself.  It keeps his haters at bay.

Trump's strategy functions by treating geopolitical conflict as a theater of perception rather than a negotiation of interests. By initiating provocations to induce ceasefire violations, Trump then immediately frames the inevitable response as "aggression." Forcing a binary choice onto a public with a limited attention span.

The media cycle, in thrall with the Trump reality, hides the "who started this" reality, allowing Trumps loyal base of cretins to claim moral high ground.  Fear and profit working together makes established media compliant.  They kiss Trump ass.

The Trump art of the deal is nothing more than "gaslighting" refined to an art form. Shifting between being combatant and peacemaker, Trump creates a disorienting environment where the truth is obscured by the sheer rapidity of events Trump now forces on us.


Trump nods out, but he still keeps his crazy horses running.  Trump can't let them stop or his haters catch up.  There is no rest for the wicked.