John Bolton's moustache and John McCain in Hell are having orgasms over the idea of starting a war between Iran and Saudi Arabia with the hopes of dragging the US into the fray so young, working class Americans can die unnecessarily in another pointless foreign war.
Right now Trump has said he does not want to go to war with Iran, and with good reason. After two decades of fighting the US military is depleted. Trillions of dollars and thousands of lives have been spent on nation building or winning hearts and minds for nothing. Yes, Trump has diverted a lot of money to rebuild the military, but there's just no way a war with Iran could possibly end well.
Any attack on Iran will escalate to a larger regional war, disrupting the world oil trade and lead to a recession, maybe even a depression, which will kill any hope Trump has of re-election. Even a small-scale war will inevitably lead to the US becoming entangled in another counter-insurgency lasting decades. On top of that, Iran is friends with Russia and China. The possibility of a war with Iran turning into a Third World War is very high. Needless to say, any war with Russia or China would involve nuclear weapons, resulting in hundreds of millions of deaths.
There is no good outcome for war with Iran.
So far all of Trump's military actions have been posturing. He's bombed abandoned airstrips in Syria, and launched cruise missiles to the middle of nowhere to placate the chickenhawks in Washington all the while trying, desperately I think, to keep the US out of another pointless foreign war. Any sane individual can only pray that he takes no further actions against Iran beyond the sanctions.
See the full press conference from President Donald Trump below.
Coming soon: Who really is responsible for the Saudi oil attack, and why does it matter?
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