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Trump added that Ukraine needed fresh elections "at some point", repeating a Putin fallacy that Zelensky was no longer a legitimate leader, even though Ukraine is under martial law precisely because of Russia's war.

A sunk cost fallacy then occurs if you lean into the sunk cost by putting more resources toward it, even though that doesn't recoup what's already lost.

“There’s a thing called ‘arrival fallacy,’ which is that the horizon is just always receding.

As they state in their contribution to Socio-Environmental Systems Modelling: "Such a map is as impossible as a perfect digital representation of reality. Scientists and decision-makers alike should not fall for this fallacy."

If nothing else, Donald Trump has proven the statement “No one is above the law” is a fallacy.