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peppertree

(23,301 posts)
Sat Mar 21, 2026, 10:30 AM 5 hrs ago

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 5 hrs ago OP
Republikans will save him. Turbineguy 4 hrs ago #1
...until they don't lefthandedskyhook 3 hrs ago #2

lefthandedskyhook

(1,178 posts)
2. ...until they don't
Sat Mar 21, 2026, 12:08 PM
3 hrs ago

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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