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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
AnnaAnthro ("Anna Anthro") wrote:

“Trump is flailing in Iran, and so—as national security scholar Tom Nichols points out after the nonsensical attack on South #Korea, another longstanding & loyal ally—he is looking to reassert his dominance.”

Trump doesn’t dare to cross leaders who actually threaten the US, those like #Putin, #China’s Xi, North Korea’s Kim.

Instead, he is trying to make himself feel better by “kicking allies, the nations he can punish without fear that they will kick him back.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/08/trump-iran-korea/688306/?gift=wCZcG10XLFojiHaCAdQmCy1ar95KAqAnwCapFm%5FU8cI