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[–] 7 points 4 months ago (1 child)

Maybe the con is longer than just this deal. Or maybe this is coming from someone other than Iran that wants the war to heat up rather than end (or even just to keep the strait closed).

Or maybe someone's head got too big and they wanted to brag about manipulating Trump when it wasn't yet strategically or tactically sound to do so.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    Colud be someone bragging to someone not expecting it to work all the way out to the media.

    Or a narrative that is probably fairly described, but editorialized. E.g. if they did state the fact they had the help of psychologists in negotiating, that statement by itself doesn't necessarily insult a man that thinks only very smart people pass cognitive tests.

    So the reporting actually extrapolates into the obvious, but unstated implications of why pyschologists would be useful in this situation.

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