Full text: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/06/no_author/trumps-art-of-the-debacle/
This defeat of U.S. imperial power is on par with the shame of the Vietnam War.
When Trump launched his war against Iran on February 28, his maximalist demands included regime change, total surrender, no nuclear program, and no enriched uranium.
None of that has been achieved. Iran has emerged stronger, the U.S. looks weaker, its military assets in the region battered, and Tehran is calling the shots on what a final deal will look like, based on its unbowed terms.
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Nearly four months on, the American president is hailing a peace deal with the Islamic Republic, but one where Tehran is writing the terms, not Washington. It’s a debacle for Trump, exposing the limits of U.S. global power like never before. Even the Western media is commenting on how Trump has come out as the loser.
Historians might note this epic failure as another inflexion point in the decline of the U.S. global empire.......
...........Trump, who wrote an ego-trip book, Art of the Deal, about his supposed business genius as a real estate mogul, is shown by Iran to be a charlatan with no smarts, only bluster and bluff, arrogance and a big mouth, and an exemplar of the art of capitulation.
He blundered into a situation in which he was way out of his depth in terms of understanding and strategic thinking. His stupid arrogance was the only force driving his moves.
With American citizens appalled by the senseless war, the barefaced lies, the U-turns, the economic misery inflicted, Trump’s reckless and callous indifference to their opposition, and the mid-term elections looming, the spoiled-brat president realized he had no choice but to stop digging a hole and scrape his way out of it.
