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Trump and Israel's War With Iran Has Already Spiraled Into Chaos

Over six American soldiers are dead. The U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia is on fire. Three F-15 planes were struck due to friendly fire. Civilian casualties are rising around the world—so much winning.
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The President of the United States is telling Americans to watch Fox News, which will host the Prime Minister of Israel, who will use the privileged platform to sell a disastrous Iran war to the public.

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If it wasn’t more clear, Secretary of State Marco Rubio essentially admitted earlier today that the United States wasn’t under “imminent threat” from Iran but instead chose to follow Israel into war. The New York Times reported that Trump was pressured into war by Netanyahu and Israel, much like how pro-Israel war hawks pushed Trump to blow up the successful Obama Administration US-Iran deal that proved that diplomacy could work to de-escalate tensions.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters Monday that the United States faced an "imminent threat" from Iran - but only if Iran was first attacked by Israel.
"The imminent threat was that we knew if Iran was attacked, and we believed they would be attacked, that they would immediately come after us. And we were not going to sit there and absorb a blow before we responded," Rubio told reporters on Capitol Hill, where he was briefing lawmakers.

U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Mike Waltz, appeared on Fox today and, with a straight face, said, “In many ways, we’ve already won.” As he’s making such bold statements, the U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia is on fire, Pakistani Shia protestors attacked the U.S. consulate in Karachi, and three F-15 planes went down in Kuwait due to “friendly fire.” Over 6 American soldiers have been killed, and Iran has retaliated with missile strikes across the Middle East.

Clearly, we are being led by the world’s most incompetent, ignorant, and reckless people who are perfectly fine killing as many people as possible to achieve their apocalyptic Rapture and oil deals. Instead of bringing about a regime change in Iran, they have only poured gasoline across the Middle East and Europe.

Iran expert Sina Toosi, a Senior Fellow at the Center for International Policy, joined me to discuss how Trump and Israel’s war has already spiraled into chaos and will cause devastating consequences for the world ahead.

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