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Trump has 'pretty well trashed' his reputation with key MAGA supporters: report
Trump Bought a War, Then Got the InvoiceThe Power MapThe source is useful for one reason: it accidentally identifies where power sat. Trump and his advisers chose escalation. Iran responded by using the leverage it had, especially over the Strait of Hormuz, to raise the cost of the war for the people Trump actually has to answer to: consumers, markets, and MAGA voters who were promised cheap, dominant, painless outcomes.That is the political anatomy here. Not “confusion.” Not “miscalculation” in the abstract. A deliberate decision to wage a costly conflict, followed by the predictable…
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