Post #3022910

2026-05-11 18:10 UTC

@Teri_Kanefield@mastodon.social @slott56@fosstodon.org what would be the resulting mess?? The mess is already there, and #trump put a pause on a ticking bomb for over a month now with no progress. If congress doesn't approve additional budget, or condition it on with ending operations in the gulf, as per war powers, it would be the right thing to do. Or I am missing something here ?

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@evana@hachyderm.io 2026-05-11 19:59

@hszakher@mastodon.world @Teri_Kanefield@mastodon.social @slott56@fosstodon.org "resulting mess" includes a lot of really embarrassing cleanup that will be humiliating for whoever owns it: think paying affected third parties and implicitly endorsing the regime in Iran via a variety of policy changes at their behest, losing face with various allies in the region where we clearly can't keep them safe, **and** owning the resulting inflation, economic impact, etc. If someone other than the executive (read: President, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of State) ends up owning this fiasco, it will empower the executive to do it again. **And** they will have a punching bag to distract from their failures, because "our plan would have worked, but we were thwarted!". It's like the grownups bailing out a teenager who's causing damage. Maybe it's done from a feeling of love or responsibility, but shielding that person from consequences will teach them that they don't have to worry about consequences.

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