Third Foundation on Nostr: "The war is not continuing because it can be won. Everybody who would know says it ...

"The war is not continuing because it can be won. Everybody who would know says it can’t. The war is continuing because stopping it would require Donald Trump to admit to Donald Trump that it didn’t work, and admitting it didn’t work would require him to admit that he didn’t work, and that — that little sentence, “I was wrong” — is the one thing this man has spent seventy-some years of his life building an entire personality to avoid ever having to say. He would genuinely rather do this. Destroy the global economy. Ruin your life. Kill your daughters and sons. He would rather do all of this than feel that for four seconds.

That’s what a malignant narcissist is, by the way, when you strip the clinical wallpaper off it. It’s someone for whom losing isn’t a setback, it’s a death. So they will spend anything to avoid it. And normally that’s a personal tragedy — it wrecks their marriages, it ruins their group chats, their kids don’t call. It’s sad. But you hand that same wiring the largest military in the history of the planet, and now the thing he’s spending to protect his feelings is us. Eighteen coffins, so far, so he doesn’t have to lose. The global economy wobbling on the axis of one disordered, unstable old guy’s ego. He does not care about anyone but himself, and that means that if sending countless numbers of us to our deaths is the price he has to pay to protect himself, is not just worth it, it’s a pleasant bargain, as easy for Trump as breathing."
https://alisav.substack.com/p/opinion-trumps-malignant-narcissism