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Many have been made this week of a flaw among the Loyalists of Donald Trump concerning the degree to which the United States should support Israel’s offensive strikes against Iran – although there was little repression among the Republicans at the Congress.
Some long-standing defenders of his Mantra America First call him to weigh an American role in the conflict between Israel and Iran after a week of strikes and deadly countercuffs.
Trump stressed Thursday morning that a notable report was wrong.
“The Wall Street Journal has no idea of my thoughts concerning Iran!” Has Trump on Truth Social. The report indicates that Trump had signed unrecognized attack plans, but that Iran could be forced to abandon its nuclear program after a week of Israeli strikes.
The United States under Trump, which was frustrated after two months of talks with Iran has not led to progress in a nuclear agreement, has transferred military assets in recent days in the Middle East.
US President Donald Trump has always denied the involvement of his country in the intensification of the conflict between Israel and Iran. But Andrew Chang explains the role that the United States has already played – and the extent to which this involvement can further increase. Images provided by Getty Images, The Canadian Press and Reuters.
It is understood that Israel needs considerable American assistance in any attempt to decimate the nuclear program of Iran, in particular with regard to the nuclear fuel enrichment factory, built deep underground in the mountains. The B-2 stealth bomber of the American Air Force is the only plane that can transport the massive GBU-57 GBU-57 penetrator, known as the Bunker Buster.
“I’m not trying to fight,” Trump told journalists in the oval office on Wednesday. “But if it’s a choice between fighting and having a nuclear weapon, you have to do what you have to do.”
“The American people must be on board”
Among the factors that propelled Trump, the foreigner, to the 2016 presidency, there was his commitment to end the American military adventurism after long and expensive commitments in Iraq and Afghanistan after the September 11 attacks.
“We end the end of the endless wars,” Trump told a speech in 2020 to the troops.
Steve Bannon, Trump’s latest director of the Trump campaign and Trump’s White House advisor, is currently urging the president to remain faithful to these instincts.
“This is one of the oldest civilizations in the world, OK, with 92 million people,” he told journalists this week during an event in Washington, DC “You have to think about this level, and the American people must be on board. You can’t just throw this on them.”
Bannon’s knowledge of the Iranian population was not equaled by the Senator of Texas Ted Cruz, who had a fractive interview this week with Tucker Carlson, who firmly criticized the senator for having asked for a change of diet in Iran.
“You do not know the population of the country you are looking to overthrow?” Asked Carlson.
“Why is it relevant if it is 90 million or 80 million or 100 million. Why is it relevant?” Cruz a counters.
One day earlier, Carlson told Bannon on the latter’s podcast that he was “really afraid that my country will be more weakened by that. I think we will see the end of the American Empire”.
Charlie Kirk, CEO of the Conservative Youth Organization Turning Point USA and a supporter through three presidential campaigns of Trump, echoed the position of Bannon and Carlson. Kirk declared in a Thursday article on social networks that “there is a big difference between a popular revolution and a change of violent regime imposed, sudden and foreign”.
‘Help Israel to complete the work’
In Capitol Hill, the South South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham is undoubtedly the most noisy falcon, urging Trump to “go all-in to help Israel to finish work”.
“It’s time to close the chapter on Ayatollah and his henchmen,” said Graham in an interview with Fox News this week. “Let’s close it soon and let’s start a new chapter in the Middle East: one of tolerance, hope and peace.”
Cruz said he was considering any scenario in which the “American boots” would be on the ground in Iran.
In Maga’s world, this opinion seems polyanne. In the show of News by Cable Oan organized by Matt Gaetz, a former CIA analyst and former Pick of Cabinet Trump said that the United States could end up with “a different version of hell” even if a change of diet has finally occurred.
Unsurprisingly, Democrats stimulate the alarm of all unilateral action of Trump. Directed by the head of the Senate minority, Charles Schumer, they declared on Wednesday in a statement that “the congress had not given authorization for military action against Iran” and that the party “would not be part of military intervention which puts the United States in danger”.
This feeling is equaled by a few Republicans, except Kentuckians Rand Paul and Thomas Massie.
In a podcast with Daily Signal published Thursday, Senator Paul said that he feared the “involuntary consequences” of greater American military involvement, showing Afghanistan.
“When we finally left [in 2021]He returned to the stone age within six months, “he said.
Listen more about American legislative attempts for saying Iran:
In this case6:44Bipartisan Bill aims to prevent Trump from waged a unilateral war in Iran
Bonnie Watson-Coleman, a Democrat deputy for New Jersey, told Nile Köksal’s host why she supports a bipartite bill which would oblige the administration of US President Donald Trump to obtain the approval of the Congress before engaging in a conflict in Iran.
Massie, meanwhile, teams up with several Democrats from the Chamber to sponsor a resolution that calls for Trump to “end” the use of the American armed forces against Iran unless the congress authorizes it.
“This is not our war. Even if it was the case, the congress must decide such questions according to our constitution,” he said earlier this week.
Magi Firebrand Marjorie Taylor Greene, not known for her bipartite spirit, did not establish a partnership on the resolution, although it posted on X: “Anyone who moves so that the United States is fully involved in the War of Israel / Iran is not America first / Maga.”
Iran again, but different
Trump faced heavy decisions involving Iran and military power before. In 2019, the United States did not act forcefully After Iran has shot a surveillance drone and when it has launched air strikes on Saudi oil installations.
Trump also withdrew after Iran pulled ballistic missiles from American forces in Iraq in January 2020. As probably happens now, several voices Within the administration, in the congress and in the right -wing media, the media were influencing Trump’s decision in January 2020.
This last decision occurred only a few days after Trump gave the green light to undoubtedly the most consecutive foreign policy decision of his first mandate, a And on expert reports Later, considered to be “illegal” – the drone strike who killed Iranian general Qasem Soleimani, who had shaped Tehran’s military position in the Middle East and provided logistical support for militant group proxies, Hezbollah and Hamas.
Solemaini’s strike on January 3, 2020 made immediate and day repercussions. On January 8, 2020, Iran has wrongly shot down the theft of Ukrainian airlines PS752Killing all crew and passenger members, including 55 Canadian citizens and 30 permanent residents, according to global business in Canada.
US authorities since then, including just in Novemberclaimed to have stifled conspiracies to kill Trump, as well as other Iranian criticisms.
The Netanyahu factor
Of course, the 2019-2020 events would not have taken place in the context of the War of Israel-Hamas. Since October 7, 2023, the Israeli soldiers have eliminated several best commanders of Hezbollah and Hamas.
While Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may feel embraced to end Iran’s threat to his country in the predictable future, former Trump’s national security adviser John Bolton told CBC News last week not to overestimate the strength of their personal relationship in any oval office decision.
“I don’t think the relationship with Trump and Netanyahu personally is as good as many people. And I think Trump really wanted to see if there was a negotiated regulation [possible]”Said Bolton.
Another difference since 2020 is that even according to Trump standards, there are many upheavals within its current administration. Several officials of the National Security Council have been rebounded – Some would have been because they were not faithful enough to Trump. Meanwhile, Secretary of State Marco Rubio is also a national security advisor, after Mike Waltz was reassigned following fiasco on the Signal cat on the military strikes in Yemen to which a journalist was inadvertently invited.
In the meantime, Trump this week Completely ignored the comments About the Iranian nuclear program carried out by its own national intelligence director, Tulsi Gabbard.
Alex Ward, from the Wall Street Journal, summed up the playing state on Wednesday.
“There is no real political process under Trump, as there is generally [is] With other presidents, “Ward said on a podcast.” This is what the president wants, then everyone executes. “”
