Trump and Rubio dismantled U.S. diplomacy. It’s making the Iran War harder.
The problem is that Trump and his advisers have declared war on a crucial tool of war-fighting: diplomacy. In the first year of his second term, Trump has seriously damaged U.S. diplomatic capacity and sidelined what diplomatic tools remain. That will make it harder for the United States to manage every conflict it now faces, including the Iran War. It will also make it immeasurably more difficult to pick up the pieces when the fighting stops
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Plenty of Europeans were totally onboard with obliterating a majority Muslim population, installing a puppet regime, and looting their oil reserves. Starmer's UK is constantly the cuck in our Special Relationship. Macron's France would love to do Libya 2, if it means selling more weapons systems. Schultz's Germany is always on board to kill more Muslims. The Scandinavian states have taken a hard-right turn along the same lane.
Imagine if Trump hadn't spent the last three months threatening to invade Greenland. Imagine if he hadn't fumbled in Ukraine eight years ago. Imagine if he hadn't threatened to tariff every country on Earth except Israel.
So many more European powers would have been on board for this.