“#Trump clearly is a real believer in the power of the mind to control events and to shape how people perceive events and shape reality.

[jugglingwitheggs@mstdn.social]

“#Trump clearly is a real believer in the power of the mind to control events and to shape how people perceive events and shape reality. The problem with that in the case of the war is the #Iranians don’t have to bend to that. There are time-tested ways to win wars and end wars through force of arms or diplomacy that have nothing to do with the mind and willpower and willing it because the other side will do what we want.”

‘Battle of the titans’: Trump’s distorted reality on Iran war runs into a brick wall

War is testing operating principle that has guided Trump for decades: construct a narrative, declare it to be true and relentlessly force the world to submit to it

the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

[jugglingwitheggs@mstdn.social]

“#Iran is #Trump’s Waterloo. This is the demolition of the Donald Trump myth. His supporters rave about his instincts and his improvisational style but the other interpretation is that he doesn’t know what he’s doing, that he hasn’t taken care to investigate the devastating consequences of his actions and so he’s digging himself deeper and deeper into a quagmire…The kind of fictional life that he’s led and evoked over the last four or five decades has now been unmasked as a deadly drama.”