With amateurs in charge and experts purged, Trump has no way out

Systemic Error Podcast · Aug 26, 2026 · 5m

Trump Chose the War, Then Pretended It Had a TimelineThe Decision Was HisThe central fact here is not confusion. It is authorship. Trump unilaterally committed the United States to war with Iran, then kept changing the story about what victory would look like and when it would arrive. The reporting makes clear that the war exists because he chose it, not because events forced his hand.That matters because the usual political fog is already forming around the edges of the crisis. The problem is not that the conflict became messy in some abstract, weather-like way. The problem is that one man…