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On President Trump’s Escalation of Conflicts With Iran.
What the assassination of their top General could mean.
At this point I’m sure many of us already know that yesterday, under the direction of Donald Trump the United States military ordered a drone strike that killed Qasem Soleimani, Iran’s top military commander.
Since the day he ripped up the Iran Nuclear Deal, Trump has made extensive efforts to goad one of the most oil rich nations on the planet in to war. Previously the most tense moments involved a near air strike that would have killed roughly one hundred people, that was just ten minutes away from happening with planes already in the air when the President called off the bombing. With the assassination of Iran’s top commander, it appears we may have finally reached the tipping point.
Imagine for a moment what the United States would do if Iran’s highest government office ordered the drone strike of our secretary of defense, or our top general in the military, and killed them. Our response, no doubt, would be wrath the likes of which they have never seen. Instantaneous war.
That is what we have just done.
That is what we have just done to a country four times the size of Iraq, with a much more established and powerful military that has influence throughout…
