you can say what you want about Snyder’s work, this is a 17 post thread about Trump’s motivations that doesn’t mention Israel once.

April 06, 2026 - 15:05 UTC

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tim snyder has always been a hack and his "scholarly" work is basically just the most classical form of holocaust revisionism (which always - hey the soviets were really as bad or worse!).

profs/scholars can be idiot cranks too. did this guy rethink the 14th amendment because of ilan wurman?
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I mean can’t both be true though
Can’t the strikes be exactly what Israel wants and also a feverish attempt to provoke a domestic attack on American soil
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Also the thing I would say about his work is that it's dogshit scholarship that is roundly mocked by actual historians of the things he pretends to be an expert on.
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Is it: attacking another country to kick off a power-grab by having (or faking?) A terrorist attack occur......or big dummie believed the hype from israel/pentagon/neo-con talking heads.
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It's similar to the Mearsheimer/Spaniel political science guys who have one theory and see everything through that framework even when it doesn't fit that well. His history work might have been good, but he's lost the thread a bit viewing the world through that lens.
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I agree--although he sometimes mentions Netanyahu as one of the corrupt autocrats who shape what Trump wants and does, he usually focuses on Orban and Putin. Not bringing Netanyahu up here def misses the mark
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only need a 1 post thread to explain Trump: he is a moron who is obsessed with the press
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Gangster in; gangster out. That's all he knows to do. He proudly terrorizes cities he doesnt like and just says it. He's not subtle enough to do a false flag, or keep it a secret if he did. He'd also immediately shift blame and blurt out any operations that happened.
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Anyone who thinks Trump has grand schemes should have to first provide a prior example where he thought something through.
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I specialize in explaining why a stupid person's actions are inexplicable to smart people who can't understand why they'd do that. It's because they're stupider than smart people can comprehend, not secret geniuses. This explanation is literally never wrong.
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¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Meh, I don't care.
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I agree Snyder is seeing a strategy that isn’t there, but I don’t think Israel was part of Trump’s strategic motivation either. That’s because i don’t think there WAS any strategic motivation. This was nothing more complicated than “nothing bad can happen, it can only good happen” as war policy.
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While Trump is not long on introspection or planning, it seems to me that if two governments are involved in starting and waging a war it would be worth considering the second government’s goals and motivations
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No, part of the "only good things" was "good things for Israel". We can infer easily this because Netanyahu was one of the people pushing for this war, Israel went in with us simultaneously and was the only country to do so, and Trump's history of crazily pro-Israel actions even in term 1.
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