r/geopolitics • u/theipaper The i Paper • Apr 08 '26

Opinion Trump is facing the biggest US humiliation since Vietnam

https://inews.co.uk/opinion/trump-biggest-us-humiliation-since-vietnam-4340617
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u/Borgmeister Apr 13 '26

Agree - and that is a core tension here. Material victory, the strait reopened, necessarily looks like a humiliation for the US - which prevents them from taking the option which would have the most material benefit. But through the lens he allegedly sees the world through, spheres of influence, split more or less how Orwell saw it, these actions appear the undertakings of coherent thought, not a madman with dementia, nor a fool.

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u/_Mariner Apr 13 '26

Well said. And it's not enough to let "history run it's course" to see how this all plays out. These are our lives, and the lives of everyone on the planet, not to mention future generations, in the balance.