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The Art of the Misdeal 0

Over at Balloon Juice, in the midst of a longer post in which he touches on a number fo topics, John Cole puts his finger on why Donald Trump’s war of choice on Iran is not going according to plan (assuming, that is, there ever ever was a plan).

It’s as neat a summing up as I think you’ll find:

One of Trump and many in his regime’s problem is being simply incapable of realizing that other nations and people have agency. People will react to provocations and attacks, and they are not obligated to react in a way that you proscribe.

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