I don't know if it's just Iran or if the recent actions in the oil lands are part of a larger political strategy by House Saud, but someone is trying their best to create oil conflict. They are doing overt things whose only purpose is to drive fear into oil markets thus hoping to drive up the price. This is desperation city and desperate people do desperate things.
Trump says he weighed the casualties against the crime of shooting down our unmanned drone and decided that it was not worth 150 lives. That is what he is telling us. But if he is smart, he will also know that not retaliating is going to keep the lid on oil prices, thus doing a lot more damage to iran than some piddling tit for tat air strike. Starve them of oil money and the regime will fall of its own corrupt weight. More corruption only feeds corruption.
Good move, Trump. You took their bad action and used to to good political gain for yourself. MANY people will just take you at face value of thinking 150 lives are not worth a drone. They will think more of you for it. Another president would have retaliated in order to not look weak. Trump doesn't give a shit what people think. This was clearly a win for Trump. He may be pushed by further action into a strike but nobody's going to be able to call him a war monger like OBAMA and Bush2 clearly were. Fucking sell outs.
On the other hand, https://www.moonofalabama.org/2019/06/white-house-pushes-trump-pulled-back-story-he-likely-never-approved-to-strike-iran.html
ReplyDeleteI simply contend that being goaded into an attack would be stupid. There may come the time and place for it but Trump should choose it. And if this was a pseudo false flag by Trump then good for him because he's using their own scammy tricks against them.
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