Palestine – Donald Trump’s Vietnam?

By | 5th February 2025

…Trump’s plan to take over the territory is merely the latest American failure to understand that others also have nationalist sentiments and national pride. It was a mistake that dogged US policy in Central America for a generation and led to the disaster in Vietnam. Trump’s plans for Palestine take the USA down the same path. Having missed service in one war, he is evidently determined to be at the beginning of the next. Vietnam began with US agents, contractors and proxies but inevitably drew in regular military forces, out-thought and out-fought by a dispersed and highly-motivated guerilla army. Will MAGA look so great when the coffins start coming home to Texas, Alabama or Missouri? How many times will the President avoid receiving them at Dover airbase?…

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