There are only a couple of interesting strategic decisions left.

First is whether the US defends Israel against Iran. Trump said he would, but there remains an outside chance that he deceived Netanyahu, let Netanyahu hang himself, in order to get the monkey off of America's back, to free America of Israeli control. We will see if that is what happens. More likely Trump is just an idiot and will defend Israel.

The second interesting decision is how much Russia and/or China backstop Iran. I'm not sure if they have to do it strategically... I think time alone will tip the balance of powerin their favor despite what happens to Iran. But they might wish to assert their dominance early and protect a very important strategic ally.

If those both go the way I suspect, US will back Israel and Russia and China will stay back... then Iran will be destroyed and the collapse of the US led world will be slowed down a little bit. The ugliest outcome, as it will just kill a lot of people and still won't achieve what the US wants. But the ugliest outcome is usually what actually happens, unfortunately.

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You’re over thinking it. Israel is killing Muslims and MAGA likes that.

Trump walking away from Israel would be epic.

I think Jeffrey Sachs in one of his interviews said as much - US would eventually walk away from Israel.

The good thing about Trump is that he has hotlines not only to China and Russia but also to the dictator of North Korea, i think

If it goes boots on the ground against Iran, I doubt it will be a mass surrender like with Iraq.

I think it's generally a fairly safe bet to assume that what the US wants is an Orwellian forever-war to make its weapons manufacturers as much money as possible while inflating the currency and controlling the population through "but the war effort..." types or arguments.

Trump will likely do whatever the blob requires of him (making it look like his own idea of course) because apparently he's in the Epstein files anyway and it's certainly not beyond the machine to threaten his children.

I'm just amazed and appaled that the actions of a few relatively unimpressive people around the world can cause so much havoc, destruction, and suffering for large groups of people who didn't provoke or order any of it.

Trump’s family has financial ties to Israel to the tune of 2 billion.

2 billion is nothing

I’m surprised Russia and China hasn’t already put their full backing into Iran. Israel is the center stage of US Middle East ops. Destroy that and you get US out of the area. If I were Russia I’d probably want a unified Arab state and make peace with them. But I’m also 80 IQ so … take that for what it’s worth

destroy israel? are you insane?

Please take a look at the US military base map for the middle east and how many of those are in Israel, and report back.

Actually I'll spare you the time- they have 2 radar stations in Israel. The Arabian peninsula is where most of the power projection is