Is that what Trump is doing? Chickening out?
Or is he deliberately giving them repeated chances to back down before things escalate further?
This doesn't look like hesitation to me. It looks like applied pressure.
The problem is clerics whose authority depends on never backing down, regardless of who pays the price.
#17 | Posted by BillJohnson
Again, you're an idiot.
Iran holds all the cards.
Trump knows he can't invade because the loss of troop life would be catastrophic. We'd need well over a million troops to control the country. 4x the size of Iraq. Surrounded by mountains. 2x the population. And a military that is trained for asymmetric warfare.
Trump can only lob a few missiles.
IRAN can SHUT DOWN the Middle East anytime it wants. Take out a few desalination plants and no more water. Half these countries get 70-80% of their water from these plants. No more oil for 3-5 years. Take out some oil refineries, no more oil for 2-4 years. Iran can shut down the Strait of Hormuz again, no more oil or fertilizer. 20% of BOTH come through that Strait.
And you MAGA FIRED all the top generals who understood the situation.
So Trump either TACOs out or destroys the world economy and ours.
And idiots like YOU put him in charge.
Demented pedophile psychopath. That's who you voted for, bub.