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EarlG

(23,639 posts)
Sat Jan 3, 2026, 11:54 AM Jan 2026

Will most people even notice?

There was no real build up to this, no Congressional involvement, no preparation of the American people for boots on the ground in a foreign country -- everyone just woke up this morning to find out that it had happened. My reaction upon reading the news this morning was basically, "Huh? Huh."

It reminds me a bit of Trump's bombing of Iran's nuclear facilites -- there was a bit of a to-do for a couple of days and then people moved on. That's the thing about Trump's tactic of making insane news on a daily basis -- it works well for changing the subject when there are scandals going on that he doesn't want to talk about, but it works equally well to remove things from the news that he DOES want to talk about.

There is no overall strategy here, no "Trump doctrine" for people to latch on to. It's just another bizarre random Trump event. Crazy as it sounds, given that most Americans just woke up to learn that Trump has ordered the U.S. military to invade a foreign country and do a regime change, will this even be a news story by this time next week?

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