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Announcements Mar 26, 2026 at 11:13 PM

Trump wants to squeeze Iran into peace talks with more troops — but it may backfire, analysts say

Posted by babybirdingURgrandma

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/26/trump-iran-peace-talks-troops-ceasefire-forever-war.html
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Slow-Recipe7005 Mar 26, 2026 +24
it WILL backfire. Trump and Hegseth have absolutely no clue what they're doing, and Trump is famous for being a terrible dealmaker (at least, among those who actually study his past instead of reading the books he most certainly did not write himself).
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quest814 Mar 26, 2026 +10
The guy who ghost wrote Art of the Deal agrees trump is a terrible deal maker. https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a21053660/trump-art-of-the-deal-contract-bad-deal/ “Tony Schwartz, Trump's co-writer on The Art of the Deal, described in a speech last fall how writers typically make money from a book, compared with the deal he struck with Trump.  “Most writers for hire receive a flat fee, or a relatively modest percentage of any money the book earns,” Schwartz said in the speech. Schwartz, by contrast, got from Trump an almost unheard-of half of the $500,000 advance from Random House and also half of the royalties. And it didn’t even take a lot of haggling. “He basically just agreed,” Schwartz told me in an email, meaning Schwartz ever since has brought in millions of dollars more of royalties and Trump has brought in millions of dollars less.”
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babybirdingURgrandma Mar 26, 2026 +2
I mean, in fairness if he hadn't written it for Trump it would have been a coloring book. Sharpie outlines of 15-year olds to fill in with the color of your choice.
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Colonel-Mooseknuckle Mar 26, 2026 +3
*The Art of the Deal* was ghostwritten by Tony Schwartz.
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Obvious_Toe_3006 Mar 27, 2026 +2
The Fart Of The Deal
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Colonel-Mooseknuckle Mar 26, 2026 +9
So weird. He's repeatedly told us we've won.
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CockBrother Mar 26, 2026 +7
Stupid fer is adding another generation or two of damage to already destabilizing the world for a generation or two. He's playing tiddly winks and doubling down while Iran is playing p****.
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Intel-Source Mar 26, 2026 +5
This is a disaster. It will get much worse when our fallen soldiers start returning home.
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Adventurous_Test_296 Mar 26, 2026 +5
Between the Wartime trainwreck that is Trump & Hegseth, their own mouths define the level of backfire. They're both petulant imbeciles.
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Caveman-Ug Mar 26, 2026 +3
If you want to win a war, maybe don’t put a Fox News host and reality tv personality in charge
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babybirdingURgrandma Mar 26, 2026 +3
>“I think [the reinforcement] has a very low probability of success and very high probability of casualties,” Davis said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box Asia” on Thursday. Davis retired from the U.S. Army after 21 years of active service. Isn't Iran going to see America is suffering casualties which the American public has less than zero appetite for, and is naturally going to conclude more pressure is being put on Trump than is being put on Iran?
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literallytwisted Mar 27, 2026 +3
I bet that you would have to go way back in Human history to find a leader dumber than Trump, Maybe as far back as before Modern Humans existed.
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Slow-Recipe7005 Mar 27, 2026 +3
I agree that any prehistoric human would be smarter than Trump, but I'd bet there are some medieval kings who could match his wit.
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Mikethebest78 Mar 26, 2026 +2
Well I mean everything he touches backfires so this is no surprise.
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D3athRider Mar 26, 2026 +3
It may backfire? Ya don't say!
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RamonaQ-JunieB Mar 26, 2026 +2
Trump is, and always has been, a schoolyard bully. It’s worked for him. It’s not this time.
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localistand Mar 26, 2026 +2
Iran has primed its people for more than 4 decades with the expectation that the US, deemed the "Great Satan", would attack them. Guessing they have a plan for that scenario, and might just be coaxing the US into an invasion.
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blazesquall Mar 27, 2026 +3
The US has primed its people for more than 4 decades with the expectation of attacking Iran, deemed the "greatest adversary" and would need to attack them. Turns out.. we did not in fact have a plan for that scenario... ut oh.
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Zealousideal_Look275 Mar 27, 2026 +2
It’s a classic escalation trap that can only end a few ways and Iran wins as long as it doesn’t end with a nuke 
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IllustriousRange226 Mar 26, 2026 +2
Send the cops, ICE, the entire military there and then send our best negotiator. 
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MAVERICK910 Mar 26, 2026 +1
Larack or Qeshm Island. You heard it here first!
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