Pretty good analysis of the current situation

[BootinUp]

https://open.substack.com/pub/mmansour/p/bombast-as-war-policy-it-wont-work?r=1uz6fn&utm_medium=ios

[Cirsium]

1. Excerpt

Donald Trump’s latest Iran episode is an angry, profanity‑laced post promising to smash Iran’s infrastructure and daring anyone to try to stop him. It read less like the words of a head of state and more like a rage‑filled promo for a WWE fight night, meant to show dominance and delight his base. That set the tone for everything that followed—an addled man talking about war as a spectacle he could script, not a dangerous conflict with a life of its own.

Trump’s latest comments on Iran show how he thinks about war as something that can be scheduled and wrapped up quickly. He talked about hitting Iran’s infrastructure “on Tuesday” and “finishing the job” in a couple of weeks, as if he were laying out a simple plan with a clear end point. In reality, conflicts like this almost never follow a timetable set in a speech.

When he talks in this manner, it sends a strong signal about priorities. The message is not this will be hard and unpredictable, but this will be quick and controlled. That affects what people expect from the war. It encourages the idea that if things do drag on, the problem is execution, not the original decision.

The language also sounds a lot like show promotion. Saying “Tuesday” gives people a day to watch for, like a season premiere. Saying “a couple of weeks” sounds like promising a fast conclusion to a storyline.

[Intractable]

2. "Tuesday," you say? Reminds me of this ...