on its own against Putin, and maybe eventually Gaza on its own against Netanyahu.
For all intents and purposes, Trumpists/alt-righters took that specific kind of antiwar-ness as seriously as they've ever taken any effort to empower bad guys.
Then Trump got back into the presidency and >

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personally became obsessed with wartime toughness in a way he actually hadn't been previously; on some level, he was deliberately baited by actual neocons, including both Netanyahu and Lindsey Graham.
So now we see Trumpist influencers doing a 180° in an effort to keep supporting him. >
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But... I actually don't think they saw this coming in 2024? I think they thought they believed very firmly in "no wars," implicitly as a means of empowering Putin and Putinists but nevertheless seriously.
Then Trump himself screwed this up by, basically, being a gullible child.
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