{"id":4970,"date":"2026-07-26T14:41:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T14:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propertyrelocationusa.com\/?p=4970"},"modified":"2026-07-26T14:41:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T14:41:54","slug":"terrified-trump-sacrifices-troops-and-torpedoes-economy-to-dodge-one-thing-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propertyrelocationusa.com\/?p=4970","title":{"rendered":"Terrified Trump sacrifices troops and torpedoes economy to dodge ‘one thing’: analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Despite frequent warnings<\/u> from his top military adviser, President Donald Trump has pressed onward in escalating his deeply unpopular war against Iran, and one journalist suspects the president\u2019s \u201cfailed\u201d strategy is motivated by his fear of “one thing.”<\/p>\n

Read more Trump\u2019s becoming \u2018more erratic\u2019 \u2014 \u2018even by Trumpian standards\u2019: Aides<\/a><\/p>\n

Trump has claimed that Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, held the belief that the U.S. war against Iran would be \u201csomething easily won,\u201d whereas The New York Times has reported<\/u> that in private, Caine has said the opposite. Nevertheless, Trump has continued to escalate the conflict.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe got told the plan failed and his response was to order more of the plan and lie,\u201d wrote journalist Alissa Valdes-Rodriguez in an op-ed published on her Substack Saturday. \u201cThat\u2019s not strategy. That\u2019s a man who heard ‘you\u2019re going the wrong way’ and pressed harder on the gas so he wouldn\u2019t have to feel the unbearable sensation of pulling over because he f—– up.\u201d<\/p>\n

As to why Trump felt compelled to remain committed to his “failed” strategy \u2013 one of escalations that has done little to lessen the war\u2019s impact on the economy or avoid U.S. casualties \u2013 Valdes-Rodriguez argued it came down to the president\u2019s desire to avoid doing \u201cone thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe war is not continuing because it can be won,” Valdes-Rodriguez wrote. “Everybody who would know says it can\u2019t.”<\/p>\n

Read more Trump\u2019s now thinking about his own death \u2014 and that\u2019s petrifying<\/a><\/p>\n

So why does Trump refuse to back down? According to Valdes-Rodriguez, the reason’s simple. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe war is continuing because stopping it would require Donald Trump to admit to Donald Trump that it didn\u2019t work, and admitting it didn\u2019t work would require him to admit that he didn\u2019t work, and that \u2013 that little sentence, \u2018I was wrong\u2019 \u2014 is the one thing this man has spent seventy-some years of his life building an entire personality to avoid ever having to say.\u201d<\/p>\n

Valdes-Rodriguez continued, \u201cHe would genuinely rather do this. Destroy the global economy. Ruin your life. Kill your daughters and sons. He would rather do all of this than feel that for four seconds.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more Judge\u2019s \u2018unexpected\u2019 Epstein files demand reveals dark truth about Todd Blanche: expert<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Despite frequent warnings from his top military adviser, President Donald Trump has pressed onward in escalating his deeply unpopular war against Iran, and one journalist suspects the president\u2019s \u201cfailed\u201d strategy is motivated by his fear of “one thing.”Trump has claimed that Gen. 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