What Trump Didn’t Know About Iran

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I have found myself struggling to describe the war President Trump has chosen to enter into with Iran, the strange lightness with which he seems to have chosen this. I would say the war is spiraling out of control, but there's never real pretense that it was under control. I find it hard to say Trump's plan for the war is failing. Because it is not clear there was any plan at all. There was a decision to strike, there was perhaps a belief that Iranians would rise up and overthrow their government, as Trump invited them to do.

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