Deadlocked Wars: How Major Powers Misread the Regions They Attacked
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Where "major powers"= two authoritarian narcissists surrounded by apparatchiks. Plenty of people in both countries read it just right.
Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump have so much in common, particularly when it comes to military misadventures.
And misreading your enemy is a commonplace occurrence in wars. It just weighs heavier in wars of choice, because of self-imposed resource constraints. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/w...
NYT article compares US in Iran & Russia in Ukraine failures. Copious Fionna Hill quotes, so you're getting the hawkish liberal internationalist mainlined here. Hill says Moscow "has been defeated in the pursuit of the goals it had,” but I don't see no NATO boots on Ukrainian soil.
Ukraine and Iran both faced existential threats. And while the strong do what they can, the weak will do whatever they must to survive. Both Putin and Trump were intoxicated by their own power, and now they both look like losers. Trump is trying to get out. Not Putin. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/w...
Great analysis: The root of the issue is that Putin and Trump sparked wars with limited understanding of the opposing sides www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/w...
None of the shifting goals that Trump predicted at the beginning of the Iran conflict — which he said would take a few weeks — has been realized 🍊🤡 Russia expected that it would seize Kyiv. That was more than four years ago. Russia has lost more than 350,000 soldiers. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/w...
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/w...
I think our miscalculation was stupider than russia’s bc ukraine had already shown a small power can defend itself, and iran had extra advantages: the strait, uninvadable, apocalyptic ideology, defense base and stocks, old nationhood, totalitarian control, etc www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/w...
On the extraordinary costs of hubris and wishful thinking, foreign policy edition — www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/w...
The wars of #Russia and the US: Great powers are unable to win wars militarily against smaller countries.
🔻 Ukraine and Iran are shaping a new world order. Russia and the USA started wars, considering themselves the masters of the world, but Ukraine and Iran humiliated them, — Neil MacFarquhar, NYT News Analysis www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/w...
“Like Putin, Trump did not have a plan for what would happen next.” …both presidents sparked wars w limited understanding of the opposing side…Hill said…“Both projected their own centralized views of their own roles onto Iran & Ukraine…they thought if they could decapitate the system it would fall”1
“American and Iranian officials now say a peace deal with Iran could be at hand. But it appears that it will initially consist of a framework for negotiations that will push the thorniest issues, like Iran’s nuclear program and sanctions relief, down the road.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/w...
“Deadlock in Ukraine discredits Russia as a global military force. It corrodes Putin’s patina of indestructibility, in the same way that the stalemate in the Persian Gulf undermines the United States and Trump.”
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The fact that you can't answer the question tells us all everything we need to know. Here's a present for you. I'm sure you'll try to ignore it, but it contains info your handlers don't want you to access, so if they're not paying attention to you, take a peek. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/w...
Arrogance and ignorance are the two defining characteristics of Trump’s foreign policy. “Trump ignored admonitions that Iran could shut the Strait of Hormuz, and appeared to underestimate Iran’s capacity to retaliate and inflict damage on America’s allies in the region.”
“Deadlock in Ukraine discredits Russia as a global military force,” Ms. Hill wrote in her policy paper. “It corrodes Putin’s patina of indestructibility, in the same way that the stalemate in the Persian Gulf undermines the United States and Trump.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/w...
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Missing from the “analysis” are the domestic political motivations driving these military adventures. “Misreading” my ass. “For laws fall silent in time of war.” Cicero Or something like that. Gift: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/w...
“Putin did not anticipate fierce 🇺🇦 resistance…Trump ignored admonitions that 🇮🇷 could shut the Strait of Hormuz, and appeared to underestimate 🇮🇷’s capacity to… inflict damage on 🇺🇸…Nor did the 🇮🇷 people rise up against their… leaders, as 🇮🇱 & the 🇺🇸 had urged” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/w...
Basically both the US and Russia diminished by ill-conceived wars. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/w...
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/w... Traitor Trump and his best friend, Vladimir Putin, swinging their d*%ks around Ukraine and Iran, have failed miserably in their wars. Typical tyrant actions...with no remorse or accountability.
Deadlocked Wars: How Major Powers Misread the Regions They Attacked www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/w... When I was a kid, this was called the “Vietnam War”. We’ve learned nothing in the ensuing fifty odd years …..
“Both conflicts have produced a similar outcome: a weaker power has trapped a stronger one in a costly confrontation. Like Putin, Trump did not have a plan for what would happen next.” Weaker powers resisted and fought them to a stalemate. Both trying to win what they failed to secure in battle.
Russia and the US fell into the same trap. Both powers projected their own centralised structures onto smaller nations like Ukraine and Iran resulting in brutal quagmires.
First Putin failed, then Trump failed. Both made their countries look foolish and weak. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/w...
𝑨𝒏𝒂𝒍𝒚𝒔𝒊𝒔︱Deadlocked Wars: How Major Powers Misread the Regions They Attacked Russia and the United States projected their own centralized views onto Ukraine and Iran, analysts said. As a result, the smaller countries trapped larger ones in a costly confrontation. ➷ www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/w...
When strategic thinking get’s trumped by pet mirages. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/w...
Deadlocked Wars: Major Powers Misread Regions They Attacked www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/w... This needs to be OVER - with a special dose of Karma for morally bankrupt supposed defenders of freedom & democratic values who betray nascent democracies they are obligated to assist. I say ‘fuck ‘em’ -
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www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/w... How is the United States like Russia? Hmmm...
Putin and Trump: united in illegal and failed wars of aggression > Deadlocked Wars: How Major Powers Misread the Regions They Attacked www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/w...
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Deadlocked Wars: How Major Powers Misread the Regions They Attacked www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/w...
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“Both conflicts have produced a similar outcome: a weaker power has trapped a stronger one in a costly confrontation…Like Putin, Trump did not have a plan for what would happen next.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/w...
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/w... Iran & Ukraine have pushed back against “might makes right” mentality.. In open letter to Putin, Pres Zelensky derided him for clinging to power as he aged. “You did not expect full-scale resistance from Ukraine, and you did not foresee that things would go this far."
Deadlocked Wars: How Major Powers Misread the Regions They Attacked Russia and the United States projected their own centralized views onto Ukraine and Iran, analysts said. As a result, the smaller countries trapped larger ones in a costly confrontation. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/w...
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"Russia and the United States projected their own centralized views onto Ukraine and Iran, analysts said. As a result, the smaller countries trapped larger ones in a costly confrontation." Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/w...
“…the enemy is at once too strong and too weak. Fascist regimes are doomed to lose their wars, because they are constitutionally incapable of making an objective assessment of the enemy’s strengths.” - Umberto Eco
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“Trump ignored admonitions Iran could shut the Strait of Hormuz, and underestimated Iran’s capacity to retaliate and inflict damage on America’s allies in the region. Nor did the Iranian people rise up against their authoritarian leaders, as Trump urged them to do.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/w...
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In one word? Arrogance. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/w...
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This is so damning but so true: “In reality, both Washington and Moscow ‘have been defeated in the pursuit of the goals that they had’” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/w...