OK, we're now freaking out over a key on a keyboard? Really?
Ignoring the all CAPS, Trump laid out what would happen the next time we were threatened by Iran.
Should he follow through with his tweet the next time Iran threatens us? What actions should he take based upon his own words in the tweet?
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I don't think Trump tweeted anything more rational than Rouhani's nonsense about "twerking the lion's tale" or whatever.
Both guy's are playing to bigger audiences that each other.
The ironic thing about this is that the only legal rational for attacking Iran is that if had WOMD or physically attacked outside it's borders with direct military force. It used to be that if the US could say "womd" and invade you, so countries wanted to have real womd to keep from getting invaded on a US pretext (thanks W). Realizing Trump has less respect for law than did W, if we launched a hundred nuke missiles at Iran, we'd create millions of martyrs and acually united the world ... against us. And unless the generals disobeyed their own oaths, they'd have to disobey any order to launch.
And our military knows we could not win a war in which we conventionally invaded Iran. And our allies, who are no longer allies thanks to Trump, wouldn't put up with it. We are well on our way to a global recession, and a hot war would be an economic and military debacle making the 1930s look relevant.
Trump wants to economically sanction anyone doing biz with Iran. He can do that, and he will. Why he wants this is an open question. Distraction? Play to base? Actually get Iran to not fund Hezbollah? I dunno.
Iran can try to satisfy Trump, but there's no way to really do that. Trump needs an enemy, and it's Iran's turn in the barrel. At some point the EU, Jina, Russia and Asia will decide trading with us more than its worth. Or we'll survive Trump.