Trump's Bluff on Iran is a "Disaster of his own making"

[g5000]

Your “phacts” are laughable. Don’t let “The View” hags continue to rot your brain.

You poor thing. You have such a limited set of debate skills.

I feel sad for you.

 

[leftwinger]

 

[leftwinger]

Iraq has been "quiet" for decades since. Iran will be silenced also. Cannot let Terrorism rule the ME and Europe. Stain and the pretend Middle are always wrong. Trump has ended up right every issue since 2015. Media always wrong with TDS infection. Every post FullStain and MiddleStain they rush in with TDS if they see the markets are down.//

 

[leftwinger]

Eric Trump explains just how bad Democrats weaponized the DOJ. He also says he believes Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and Democrats in charge during the Biden Admin were responsible for organizing the assassination attempt“I became the most subpoenaed person in American history, 112 subpoenas for doing nothing wrong. I've never gotten so much as a traffic ticket. 91 indictments toward my father. They came after us like we were dogsThey raided Mar-a-Lago. They raided Melania's room, their room— It was the government. It was Joe Biden. It was Merrick Garland. We know that Hillary paid for the dirty dossier. We know that Barack Obama was the one that did the Russia hoax. They weaponized every bank. They weaponized every financial institution. They weaponized the DOJ. They spied on our campaign. And when none of this worked, you know what they did? They tried to shoot my father because they couldn't control us. We weren't one of them. We love this country. We love our nation. We love the constitution. We love God. We love faith. We love freedom. And our country was going to hell. So guess what? We fought relentlessly”

 

[berg80]

Trump didn't bluff. Trump told Iran do as I say or I will rain hell down on your country.

And he did.

Right on cue a trumple chimes in with a twisted, mendacious view of events.

 

[berg80]

Eric Trump explains just how bad Democrats weaponized the DOJ.

Do you really think one of trump's offspring, who is nothing but one of his faithful mouthpieces, has a dispassionate view of anything relating to his employer, his dad, let alone how the DoJ treated Don.............the convicted felon?

 

[Muhammed]

Anyone who is paying attention knows that Trump constantly bluffs and then re-sets. So you just have to call him out.

The term TACO is now used all over the goddamn planet. He is a punchline.

Iran sure as hell knows this, even if Trump doesn't realize it.

The triple digit IQ demograph knows that a verbal bluff costs nothing, but works occasionally.

 

[Muhammed]

Trump raped a 13 year old girl, you see.

^
Obvious projection.

 

[kyzr]

People around the world know Trump is not a smart, nor calculating man, someone with little conviction, a reckless and foolish man who will start a war and quickly lose interest in it, especially if the other side stands fast and does give in to his demands. That is why Iran is not listening to his appeal to end hostilities.

In the years after Barack Obama’s presidency, it became an article of faith that one of his central errors in foreign policy was the Syria “red line.” He had said he would attack Syria if it used chemical weapons — but when evidence emerged that it had used those weapons, he pushed the question of intervention to Congress, which declined to act.

So when Trump says open Hormuz or we destroy your powerplants, that isn't smart?
If not why is Iran letting 10 tankers thru? Trump has Iran over a barrel.

Territory of the Islamic State - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

As for Syria and ISIS. This map shows ISIS under Obama. Trump eliminated it.

Maximum extent of IS territorial control in Syria and Iraq in 2015.

Another Obama gift to terrorism is the $56,000,000,000 he gave to Iran.

 

[leftwinger]

Oman is mediating any discussions. If Iran has any real leaders in place?

 

[leftwinger]

Do you really think one of trump's offspring, who is nothing but one of his faithful mouthpieces, has a dispassionate view of anything relating to his employer, his dad, let alone how the DoJ treated Don.............the convicted felon?

112 supenoas, you ignorant Anti-American FullStain.

 

[MarathonMike]

Iraq has been "quiet" for decades since. Iran will be silenced also. Cannot let Terrorism rule the ME and Europe. Stain and the pretend Middle are always wrong. Trump has ended up right every issue since 2015. Media always wrong with TDS infection. Every post FullStain and MiddleStain they rush in with TDS if they see the markets are down.//

Playing "pass the buck" for nearly half a century has brought us to this point. Evil flourishes when good men choose to do nothing. Sadly that precedent was set by Reagan in 1983 which allowed the ME cancer to metastasize.

 

[berg80]

The triple digit IQ demograph knows that a verbal bluff costs nothing, but works occasionally.

The cost is your counterparty knowing you're full of shit.

 

[Muhammed]

The cost is your counterparty knowing you're full of shit.

That's the stupidest thing I've read all day. Congrats, moron.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Weird how the western liberal news propaganda reports stuff, US is losing and going down, vs how the news is being reported in the ME, that Iran is being throttled. Lol. The propaganda flowing out of this country makes pravda look like all truth.

 

[yidnar]

Yes.

AI Overview



As of late March 2026, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) reports that U.S. forces have struck over 10,000 military targets inside Iran as part of "
Operation Epic Fury". These strikes have heavily targeted Iran's military infrastructure, including reports claiming the destruction of 92% of the Iranian Navy's largest vessels.

 

[pknopp]

AI Overview

When this starts a reply, I ignore it.

 

[yidnar]

When this starts a reply, I ignore it.

 

[TheProgressivePatriot]

WAPO again?

Is there something in the report that is inaccurate?? ......something that you can refute ?? I don't think so

 

[Chuz Life]

People around the world know Trump is not a smart, nor calculating man, someone with little conviction, a reckless and foolish man who will start a war and quickly lose interest in it, especially if the other side stands fast and does give in to his demands. That is why Iran is not listening to his appeal to end hostilities.






In the years after Barack Obama’s presidency, it became an article of faith that one of his central errors in foreign policy was the Syria “red line.” He had said he would attack Syria if it used chemical weapons — but when evidence emerged that it had used those weapons, he pushed the question of intervention to Congress, which declined to act.

“A disaster,” Donald Trump called it at the time. A cause of “generational and reputational damage,” said then-Sen. Marco Rubio(R-Florida). Part of “an incoherent maze” of foreign policy, Pete Hegseth argued a few years later. In ignoring a red line that he had drawn, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) explained, Obama had risked squandering American credibility around the world.

Obama’s red line flip flop looks like the model of careful policymaking compared to what we have witnessed since the Iran war began. Last week, President Trump posted on social media that “If Iran doesn’t FULLY OPEN, WITHOUT THREAT, the Strait of Hormuz, within 48 HOURS from this exact point in time, the United States of America will hit and obliterate their various POWER PLANTS, STARTING WITH THE BIGGEST ONE FIRST.”

The rest of the story is well known. Iran refused to be cowed by this threat and continued its attacks and its closure of the strait. Trump’s response? To quickly climb down and announce that he had postponed any action on energy infrastructure for five days, claiming that — suddenly, overnight — Iran and the U.S. had been engaged in “productive conversations” toward a “complete and total resolution of our hostilities in the Middle East.” The Iranians denied any such talks were taking place. Now Trump says he’s extending the pause by another week and a half.

It is by now clear that Trump is being graded on a curve. When he says he will raise tariffs to 130 percent or that he will blow up Iran’s biggest gas field or that “the war is very complete, pretty much” none of these statements mean much. They could be actual American policies or not, or they could stand as policy for a day or a week after which they will change. After saying that the war was pretty much complete, that same day Trump asserted that “we haven’t won enough” and that “we’ll not relent until the enemy is totally and decisively defeated.” He’s said that he agreed to negotiate with Iran’s leaders but then couldn’t because they keep getting killed — though it is of course his own military (and Israel’s) which is doing the killing. All clear?

Trump’s supporters claim this incoherence is strategic genius, that he is keeping people off guard. Except that policy seems to change for a variety of reasons: Maybe the stock market falls, or maybe the target country lavishes praise on Trump and gives him a gold bar. Trump’s superpower is that he is flexible enough to turn on a dime and has a base that will accept anything he proposes. Once unalterably opposed to Middle Eastern wars, many of his MAGA followers now believe in this Middle Eastern war with the zeal of converts. And while Trump has made clear that he would like to end the hostilities, the problem this time, unlike with tariffs, is that he cannot stop what he started. Iran gets a vote. And it is currently voting to keep fighting, calculating that though weakened, it has enough military power to do damage to the world economy, thereby inflicting pain on the U.S.

For the world there is no longer any such thing as American credibility, just a strange reality television show in which the main actor swerves, bobs and weaves his way through crises, hoping that what he says today will solve the crisis caused by what he said yesterday.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/03/27/trump-iran-threat-bluff-credibility/

All that to say "Orange Man Bad."

Why the waste of bandwidth?