President Donald Trump is caught in a "classic escalation spiral" as he tries desperately to escape his war with Iran, and according to a new analysis from thePresident Donald Trump is caught in a "classic escalation spiral" as he tries desperately to escape his war with Iran, and according to a new analysis from the

Trump’s spiraling war fits 'classic escalation spiral' of his past failures: NYT analysis

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President Donald Trump is caught in a "classic escalation spiral" as he tries desperately to escape his war with Iran, and according to a new analysis from the New York Times, his troubles with this conflict reflect a "striking" pattern that can be seen throughout many of his recent failures.

Writing for the Times on Wednesday, political columnist Jamelle Bouie discussed the recent reports suggesting that Trump and his aides were unprepared for the ongoing fallout of its military strikes on Iran, including the retaliations against U.S. personnel, strikes against other Middle Eastern nations and, crucially, the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, which has resulted in a historically massive energy supply disruption. The administration, Bouie suggested, seemed to expect that the conflict would swiftly cause the Iranian regime to crumble, allowing it to be replaced with a more agreeable alternative. Essentially, they expected a repeat of the success in Venezuela, despite warnings that Iran would not be so easy to handle.

With the possibility of regime change all but dead, Trump now appears to be scrambling for a new endgame.

"If anything, Trump is caught in a classic escalation spiral," Bouie wrote. "When one approach fails, in this case the initial airstrikes, he moves to the next. When that fails, he bids higher. And when escalation still doesn’t produce the desired result — when he faces the choice between accepting defeat or stalemate or going even further — he goes further. Which is how we have arrived closer and closer to the use of ground troops: Thousands of Marines — and now paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne — are headed to the Middle East as Trump weighs a new offensive tied to either the Strait of Hormuz or Iranian nuclear materials."

Bouie further noted how Trump and his allies seemed genuinely unprepared for meaningful pushback from Iran against military aggression. This, he argued, fits an ongoing pattern with Trump, wherein his deeply ingrained narcissism does not allow him to consider the possibility that people might dislike and rebel against his plans.

"What’s striking is how familiar this pattern feels," Bouie wrote. "The administration did not expect the public to be repelled by DOGE. It did not expect outrage over the treatment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. It did not expect Democrats to respond to threats of partisan gerrymandering with their own push to wring as many Democratic seats as possible out of so-called blue states. The administration certainly did not expect the mass mobilizations against the deployment of National Guard troops and the use of ICE and Customs and Border Protection as a roving paramilitary force. Minnesota, in particular, appears to have caught them entirely off guard — a tendency toward docility, it seems, is their base-line assumption about everyone they oppose."

He added later: "This gets to the real problem. Donald Trump is famously indifferent to the concerns of those around him. He is a consummate narcissist, and he is, without question, the most solipsistic person ever to occupy the Oval Office. Over his decades on the public stage, we have seen little to no evidence that he believes in the existence of other minds."

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