Investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill shared a startling revelation last week that Iranian negotiators had recruited psychologists to help navigate what they believed was Trump’s “impaired mental state.” And on Monday, Scahill provided an update on Iran’s unique approach to the negotiations, which he said Tehran partially credited for Sunday’s success.
“Senior Iranian psychologists began working with the negotiating team to try to cater the messages that the Iranians were sending via mediators back to Donald Trump to try to take into account what they say as his specific mental illness and mental deficiencies,” Scahill said in an interview with Democracy Now published on Monday.
“Almost quite clinically, they said they began to see this process yielding results as they worked with psychologists to send these communications to Donald Trump, and they credit that, in part, with getting to this point where Trump finally accepted some version of his manufactured and almost entirely false victory narrative.”
It is if you acknowledge who the perpetrator is, which isn’t Iran. America is one of many of Trump’s victims.
…course, Trump himself was the result of America shooting itself in the foot in the first place. Then instead of learning its lesson, shooting itself in the other foot one presidency later. So… I hate to victim blame, but we kinda stuck our dick in the hornet’s nest. This particular victimhood was glaringly foreseeable and easily avoidable. We’re getting what we asked for.
Apologies to the rest of the world for being the meth house of the global neighborhood.
Just because we can see it coming doesnt make it stoppable. I can see a train coming but I’m not going to stop it.
This seems to be the natural progression of things given the systems and stories we decide to live by.
Oh, individually? We’re tied to the tracks. I was talking collectively, in which case we very much fucked up.