https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/14/trump-iran-war-chaos
“Mr President,” said a reporter. “You’ve said the war is ‘very complete’ but your defence secretary says, ‘This is just the beginning’. So which is it?” Donald Trump’s eyes darted left and right then down. “Well, I think you could say both,” he parried.
The confusing answer at a press conference in Doral, Florida this week did not befit a wartime leader armed with stirring rhetoric and a lucid plan. But it was entirely on brand for the 47th US president. The tumultuous style that Trump brings to election campaigns, dealing with Congress and global trade relations has now been imported to the theatre of war.
For as the conflict with Iran enters its third week, impacting nearly every corner of the Middle East and causing economic tremors around the world, Trump has emerged as America’s commander-in-chaos.
Jonathan Alter, a presidential historian who has written books about Franklin Roosevelt, Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter, said: “He’s a chaos agent and that’s what he specialises in. He doesn’t think any further ahead than the next news cycle and so you get an on-again off-again zigzag foreign policy.”
Alter added: “He lies as easily as he breathes so to believe anything out of his mouth like, ‘we demand unconditional surrender’ – well, two days later, he won’t be demanding it anymore and he’ll pretend he never said it. His words are at some level meaningless except, because they’re backed by so much weaponry, they take on enormous importance.”
One of the most anti-semitic papers in England
ReplyDeleteAny substantial criticism or only ad hominem attacks?
DeleteJonathan Alter is not the Alter of Slobodka...
DeleteWars generally are unpredictable and there is a fog of war, where things do not seem clear.
Applying cheerleading display standards to a war against the most powerful terrorist regime in the middle east is not serious scholarship, it is mere deception.
The Guardian ran fake interviews with supposed Israeli senior Mossad and army men who claimed that Israel was intentionally mass murdering civilians in Gaza. It has accepted every Hamas lie and ignored any Israeli truths. It is thoroughly anti-Semitic, almost to the level of Der Struemer. Only someone with Trump Derangement Syndrome would give it any credence.
DeleteDuring the Gaza war, the guardian was regularly running anti-semitic articles, eg how Israel was weaponising the Holocaust! But yea, ad hominems
DeleteWhat about the quote from Jonathan Alter? Is that also suspect?
DeleteAre you claiming that the quote from Trump is fake to make him look like a bumbling idiot?
DeleteThe alter of Washington thinks that war is like a baseball game, and that both sides will obey rules. He is divorced from reality.
DeleteTrump’s plan makes perfect sense, and it’s working
ReplyDeleteThe US president is not just picking off Chinese allies for sport – he’s working up to a deal with economic rival
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/15/trump-plan-makes-perfect-sense-working-china-allies/
Alot of wishful thinking which doesn't5 work in reality
DeleteMore anti-Semitism from the guardian:
ReplyDelete"And so even though Gail’s describes itself as “a British business with no specific connections to any country or government outside the UK”, its very presence 20 metres away from a small independent Palestinian cafe feels quietly symbolic, an act of heavy-handed high-street aggression"
Gails has a Jewish founder, and is being targeted by the pro Palestine Nazis.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/14/food-israel-gaza-war-london-protest
Using ad hominem attacks on news sources claiming fake news or bias is not convincing if in fact there are inaccuracies than please state what they are. Are you claiming Fox or NY Post is totally objective reporting?
ReplyDeleteThis is a standard technique used by Trump- to claim all criticism is fake news
It's evidence of selection bias. The editors will encourage reports that bash Israel, America, and yidden
DeleteThe Guardian has been accused of using antisemitic tropes to describe the opening of a Gail's as an 'act of heavy-handed high-street aggression' against Palestinians.
ReplyDeleteThe opinion piece has prompted furious backlash from critics, who said the newspaper had published 'centuries-old stereotypes' about Jews.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15648005/Guardian-article-opening-Jewish-Gails-Palestinians.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=social-twitter_mailonline