Foreign Affairs

peppertree

(23,457 posts) Sat Mar 21, 2026, 10:30 AM Mar 21

Yanis Varoufakis: 'Nothing can save' Trump from Iran War disaster

"Donald Trump - like George W. Bush before him, like LBJ in the 1960s - has been caught in a trap of his own making, and he doesn't know how to wriggle out of it."

"This is a perfect storm: You have energy going up; AI investment tapering; interest rates going up - even if the war stops today, which [Trump] can't because he has no way of de-escalating."

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Yanis Varoufakis: 'Nothing can save' Trump from Iran War disaster (Original Post) peppertree Mar 21 OP

Republikans will save him. Turbineguy Mar 21 #1

...until they don't lefthandedskyhook Mar 21 #2

Turbineguy

(40,210 posts)

1. Republikans will save him.

Reply to peppertree (Original post)

Sat Mar 21, 2026, 11:16 AM

Mar 21

They always do.

lefthandedskyhook

(1,181 posts)

2. ...until they don't

Reply to Turbineguy (Reply #1)

Sat Mar 21, 2026, 12:08 PM

Mar 21

this party would go the way of the Whigs if their money got cut off. Corruption must be prosecuted piece by piece

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