Notice How All Those Saying "TACO" or "Two Weeks" Aren't Saying It Anymore?
- john raymond
- Jun 22
- 2 min read
Remember the endless stream of pundits, commentators, and self-proclaimed experts who told us not to worry? That Trump wouldn't actually do it? That this was just another bluff? They called him TACO: "Trump Always Chickens Out." They said "two weeks" meant a nothingburger. They claimed his bluster toward Iran was hollow. They even went so far as to say that Trump might secretly want peace. They were all wrong.
Wrong in their assumptions. Wrong in their frameworks. Wrong in their historical analogs. And now that the war has started, they are either silent or pivoting. But the time for lazy assumptions is over.
The mistake they made was assuming Trump’s motives were domestic. They viewed everything through the lens of American politics alone. In that narrow view, war with Iran made no sense. But that’s the point: their assumptions were flawed because they ignored the international layer—specifically Trump’s alignment with Vladimir Putin’s objectives and the global architecture of asymmetric war.
This war with Iran is not just about wagging the dog. It’s not just about distracting from Trump’s failing domestic agenda, collapsing poll numbers, or legal peril. Those are pieces, yes. But the real function of this war is strategic: to aid Putin in Ukraine by draining NATO’s attention and resources. To fracture the alliance from within. To signal to the world that the U.S. under Trump is no longer a reliable hegemon. To destroy the trust that underpins Western coordination.
This war is about helping Russia. And Trump is doing it because that’s what he’s always done.
Trump always helps out Putin. This is your short-hand analysis. It is how you can easily know that this war is part of Putin’s plan.
He never needed a clean casus belli. He never needed public support. All he needed was ambiguity, media complacency, and the illusion of indecision. That was what "two weeks" was always about. Not delay, not cowardice, but the performative stretching of the Overton Window. Each day he pushed the narrative slightly further—testing the public’s tolerance, playing media against itself, wearing down resistance. It was consent manufacturing, not hesitation.
So where are the TACO chorus now? Quiet. Hoping you forget what they said. Hoping you don’t notice they missed the obvious: that Trump was always going to do this because he had permission to do this. From Putin. From the Axis. From the web of authoritarian alliances that see chaos in the Middle East not as a crisis—but as opportunity.
We warned you. We laid out the model. The Analyst Report mapped the vectors of escalation, the chain of incentives, the strategic pivot post-Spiderweb. And it wasn’t about hunches or hot takes. It was about method. Doctrine. Pattern recognition.
If you were one of the many who mocked those who said Trump would start a war—this is your moment to stop talking and start listening. The world is more dangerous now because people like you refused to accept the evidence of coordination. The time for learning is here. The time for denial is over.
You were wrong. Not just tactically. But fundamentally. And if we’re going to stop what comes next, we need to start from the right set of assumptions. The ones grounded in geopolitical reality—not wishful thinking.
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