nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31840495

President Trump spent the first months of his term holding back Israel’s push for an assault on Iran’s nuclear program. With the war underway, his posture has gyrated as he weighs sending in the U.S. military.

[looks very likely Trump is going in with Israel]

By Jonathan Swan, Maggie Haberman, Mark Mazzetti and Ronen Bergman
June 17, 2025, 12:16 p.m. ET

https://archive.ph/V1Zfr

  • xyzzy@lemm.eeEnglish
    7·
    14 days ago

    War in the Middle East is a Republican rite of passage. It’s part of their heritage.

    • Joe@discuss.tchncs.de
      4·
      13 days ago

      It’s a trait of sociopathy (psychopathy?), I think. One tends to align oneself with the views of the other person (aka lying). And to survive a demanding role that requires one to form and hold and justify one’s own opinions, he probably takes the lazy route and keeps the last persona until his next mental reset.

      He is an imposter in his own mind, and we know it.

  • Optional@lemmy.world
    52·
    14 days ago

    Yeah but Kamala was part of an administration that supported genocide! We had to let trump win!

    I mean, sure, now in hindsight, it’s much worse in every way but. No one told us that back then.