The Trump administration appears to be sending an aircraft carrier to the Middle East. This is an appalling betrayal of Trump’s America first agenda. War with Iran will be even more disastrous than the war in Iraq. Iran is more stable and and is a much bigger country than Iraq.
Iraq was fractured by sectarianism (Kurds, Sunnis, Shiites). Iran is going to be much tougher to defeat. If there is anything last summer’s bombing of Iran by Israel and the US proved is that the neoconservatives dictate policy. Trump can still do the right thing and show restraint.
Attacking Iran is a dangerous escalation and is immoral. In the aftermath of the genocide in Gaza and the ruins of Syria, western aggression at the bid of the neoconservatives is as ambitious as it was under Bush-Cheney. There is no way that any of this ends well. This blogger supported Trump largely to avoid these wars.
It appears once again that an elected President has chosen to follow the dictates of the unelected think tanks and ideologues who remain in positions of influence. They led Clinton to bomb Serbia, Bush to invade Iraq, Obama to overthrow Khaddafi and intervene in Syria, and Biden to surround Russia in Ukraine. None of the above turned out well. Trump is just another dupe doing what he is told to do. He is doing what the people who always loathed him advised him to do.
The Crusades are set to resume.