Trump’s Yalta: Witkoff and Kushner get played yet again in Abu Dhabi
Trump’s Yalta: Witkoff and Kushner get played yet again in Abu Dhabi
THE HILL, by Mark Toth and Jonathan Sweet, opinion contributors 11/12/26 07:00 AM ET
The repeated ineptness of Trump and his Flower-Pot negotiators Vance, Trumps self-serving son in law, and a golfing buddy, where both Russia and IRAN are playing these fools as Hitler did before WWII, no one is game enough to confront Chamberlain's dangerous idiocy.
Republicans loss of the election is a direct consequence, US citizen humiliation has its limit.
1. By utilising two intermediaries Qatar and Pakistan who have a vested Islamic culture ideology imperitive to prevent a secular Democracy taking root in Iran.
2. Enabling time and space for Iran to regroup and project power by creating a second front with Saudi Arabia being targeted by the Houthis.
3. Forcing the US into a humiliating retreat of forces from Britain making it a much more expensive operation to attack Iran via a longer distance and importantly having a much earlier warning of such an attack.
4. Time to diplomatically shore up support from allies Russia and China and other nations.
5. Failure to understand:
"if you cannot replace the ideological software, the hardware you destroy is irrelevant." Machiavelli
Antithesis Biology/Culture Ideologies repeatedly Dissimulate (Adapt, Discover, Improvise) until they reach thresholds to Overcome or are allowed to survive to repeat the process.
The Muslim biology/culture ideology rationale system thrives on chaos, as Muslims do not care what happens economically as long as, as in Gaza, Muslim elite retain control on the ground of whatever resources are left. Muslims would have their own starve to death, be blown to bits as a test of faith to preserve a core capacity to weather the storm and re-emerge more lethal than before.
The lessons here are(WWII):
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(c) That peace cannot be brought by appeasement; that it is far better in the long-run to challenge at an early stage rather than allow an aggressor to go on from strength to strength until the inevitable war begins with the defender at a dangerous disadvantage.…
If you make the deductions from your intelligence reports fit your preconceived notions about what the enemy is or ought to be doing, you are almost bound to be surprised.”
MIDDLE EAST 1939-43, DIRECTORATE OF MILITARY TRAINING, Military Board Army Headquarters, Melbourne, 31/8/1959
"A profound strategic blind spot plagues modern military interventions. **Chapter 5 of *The Prince**, Machiavelli argues that states accustomed to living under their own laws and "codex" cannot be held simply by crushing their physical capacity to resist.
Machiavelli offers three choices for the conqueror: **ruin them**, **reside there in person**, or **permit them to live under their own laws** while installing a friendly oligarchy. The argument aligns with his "ruin them" or "be destroyed" dichotomy: if you cannot replace the ideological software, the hardware you destroy is irrelevant.
### 🏛️ The Machiavellian Logic of "Codex"
Machiavelli’s warning about "antithesis cultures" is that the memory of their old liberty and their specific social "codex" never rests.
* **The Resilience of Belief:** As you noted, when a system is scripted into the very biology and social fabric of a people (where deviance = death), a military defeat is viewed merely as a "test of faith" or a temporary setback.
* **The "Oily Rag" Economy:** Because the motivation is transcendental or existential, the adherents do not require a supply chain to remain a threat; they only require the "codex."
* **The Failure of Modern Metrics:** The U.S. tendency to measure success via **Battle Damage Assessment (BDA)**—tanks destroyed, bunkers leveled—is a 20th-century industrial metric applied to a 1st-century psychological reality.
### ⚠️ The "Dangerous Delusion" of Infrastructure Victory
Measuring victory by "infrastructure eliminated" is a category error. In an ideological network, the "center of gravity" is not a bridge or a power plant; it is the **narrative of legitimacy.**"
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