At the Institute for Political Economy, Paul Craig Roberts wonders what drives Trump to war with Iran. He writes:
Trump has revealed time and again that he took us to war against Iran for Israel. Trump thinks no oil price is too high to pay to protect Israel from an alleged “Iran threat.” It was Israel, not Iran, that started the war. It is Israel that has nukes with which to threaten Iran. Why doesn’t Trump think this is bad? It is Israel that is the aggressive state with nukes, not Iran.
Why can’t Trump focus on representing Americans? What drives Trump to put America’s military, budget, lives, and weapons to the service of Israel and to risk collapsing GDP and soaring inflation from interruption of oil and fertilizer shipments? Trump really makes no sense. Perhaps he thinks he is president of Israel.
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