and the weird bruising is from blood thinners-there are several different ones.
I think he just talked about the bruising in some interview. Said the doc has him on the 81mg baby aspirin but he is just taking a whole regular aspirin because he didn't like the idea of "thick blood" coursing through his veins, so the bruising is supposedly from that. Unfortunately Trump can't ever admit any perceived weakness, even if it's nothing that people would even care about, so you don't know if that is a cover story so to speak. It's reasonable enough a story though but then it's a bit of an ignorant train of thought wrt dosing like that. Might do more harm than good overall. Hell, in my country baby aspirin is basically never recommended and I remember writing on here maybe a decade or two ago how the whole baby aspirin rec has been questioned in the US; whether it's even doing anything relevant wrt heart attacks.
Now, back to the topic. I think he’s fucked this up royally and doesn’t quite understand the fanatical government he’s dealing with in Iran. Those dudes don’t give a fuck and are making him look bad. He’s losing this negotiation and if you need evidence of that, just look at who’s absent from this thread.
Do you think he should be approaching it differently now that his previous approach hasn't worked? They sure called all his bluff and bluster. Like I said in this thread those guys are tough as hell and Trump may not understand not every culture operates on purely transactional level, like Trump is used to dealing with people in real estate deals. However, the Iranians may actually have been making the most "rational" moves until this point - because it's been working so far and now they feel they are the ones holding all the cards (Hegseth said the Iranians have NO cards to play LOL). One Iranian minister just argued from Iran's POV they should probably just push for a renewed hot war as that would be the most rational course of action for several reasons. I think it's a smart prediction Trump starting the war again would probably be catastrophic for him and even he knows that now. It's probably not very true they are just irrational religious fundamentalists, they are making very calculated and strategic moves even from a western military POV.
Douglas McGregor said some Scandinavian country, I'm guessing mine, asked for his opinion on what NATO should do to effectively counter Russia. Learn from Iran he said.
