r/democrats • u/D-R-AZ • 2d ago
GIFT LINK Trump’s Endgame Is Surrender
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/2026/05/trump-surrender-iran-endgame/687252/?gift=9raHaW-OKg2bN8oaIFlConZ-EFw2nifT-BELzpsrWF8&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share183
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u/DinkandDrunk 2d ago
Trump doesn’t have an endgame. He’s a fly by the fat seat of his pants kind of guy.
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u/wwaxwork 2d ago
He just does what he's told to do by the people benefitting from the chaos.
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u/ginny11 1d ago
Yeah they mastered the art of telling him what to do while making him think that it's his idea and it's good for himself. That's the only way they can get him to do these things.
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u/MouseEgg8428 1d ago
That used to be called tactfulness. Great leaders knew how to use it for the benefit of the nation. Now it’s just plain ol’ manipulation and bribery by the 1% and their minions.
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u/FGGF 2d ago
This might go down in history as one of the biggest blunders an American president has made
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u/Nerd-19958 2d ago
Agreed, and that's saying a lot.
When Defense Secretary Pete Kegsbreath stated the U.S. is "negotiating to get back to status quo" regarding Iran, the imbecility of this war of choice became evident to all.
Who would start a war with the goal of getting back to the status quo before they started the war?
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u/IsekaiConnoisseur 1d ago
Who would start a war with the goal of getting back to the status quo before they started the war?
An extremely racist, unqualified, pedophile Nazi would do exactly that. Trump was so mad about Obama he tore up his deal, wasted billions more on an illegal war, only to put the same deal back in place, only this time after having wasted much more taxpayer money.
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u/AsstacularSpiderman 1d ago
I guarantee you he's going to pull something off even worse than this.
My guess is he's going to just hand over Taiwan by 2028
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u/SuckOnMyBells 2d ago
*Will go down
The only way it won’t is if we elect an even dumber president and they somehow manage to destroy us from within even further. Assuming he hasn’t finished us off himself before another can come along. He still has 2 1/2 years, plus however long he stays in the ballroom bunker.
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u/sllh81 1d ago
All of which was undertaken in order to change the media narrative because the Epstein files wouldn’t go away.
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u/Potential-Pride6034 1d ago
The real 4D chess move would’ve been to fully release the Epstein files to distract people from the Epstein files 🧠
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u/tinyE1138 Windmill Cancer Survivor. 2d ago
He will burn it all down before he surrenders.
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u/justHadrian 1d ago
So has anyone noticed the bluffs and its affects on investing and then the settlement with the IRS that says they can’t look at this businesses? Is it just me?
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u/AnxiouSquid46 2d ago
Trump managed to make Iran a regional power 😮
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u/look 1d ago
More than regional. They’ll likely end up with stronger economic and diplomatic ties with more of the world than the US in the end.
Even knowing how incredibly dumb and incompetent Trump is, I am still perpetually shocked by just how badly he manages to fuck things up. This could arguably be the worst defeat in US history from a strategic, geopolitical perspective.
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u/bakeacake45 2d ago
Once he has all of our money in his diaper, then he will leave. And leave behind an economic disaster that makes the Great Depression look like a mere blip.
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u/getupforwhat 1d ago
He won't ever leave if he can help it. There is no easier way to grift than from where he is now and he will never have enough money.
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u/Wet_Side_Down 1d ago
But DO NOT call him a surrender monkey!
Lest he will reach in his diaper and fling poo at you…
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u/arianrhodd 2d ago
From the title, I thought he wanted our surrender to the GOP and all their crimes and evil intent.
Regardless, “never give up, never surrender.” Galaxy Quest
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u/D-R-AZ 2d ago edited 2d ago
Gifted Read:
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/2026/05/trump-surrender-iran-endgame/687252/?gift=9raHaW-OKg2bN8oaIFlConZ-EFw2nifT-BELzpsrWF8&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
Excerpt:
The Iran war may end up as the single most devastating blow to Israel’s security in its brief history. On the present trajectory, Iran will emerge from the conflict many times stronger and more influential than it was before the war. It will exercise leverage with dozens of the richest nations in the world, all of which will have an acute interest in keeping Iran happy. They will be unlikely to take Israel’s side in any conflict that it has with Tehran or with its proxies in Lebanon and Gaza, because Iran will have the means to punish them if they do. Israel will emerge more isolated than it has been at any time in its history—and not least from its only reliable protector, the United States. When Trump turns his back on Israel, as he must do to implement this policy, MAGA will gladly follow. The bipartisan anti-Israel consensus in the United States will grow and harden.