Trump does not like international conflict, but he also wants to be the powerful powerhouse of the world

The signs are ominous. On Monday evening, President Donald Trump leaves the G7 summit early to convene his national security council about the war in the Middle East. Upon arrival in Canada, he calls a diplomatic agreement with Iran still ‘feasible’. Upon departure, he calls the 10 million inhabitants of Tehran to ‘immediately evacuate’ on their city. On the way to Washington, aboard Air Force One, he says he is not working on « a ceasefire, but on a real end » of the Iranian atomic program. American tank aircraft and an aircraft carrier are already en route To Europe and the Middle East.

Are the United States about to bomb Iran with Israel? Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu started Friday, against Trumps will and insistwith attacks on nuclear installations, weapon factories, the military management and the public broadcaster. Now he wants the American president to help him. Only the United States have the ‘bunkerbuster bombs’, and the bomber that can wear such 30,000-ponders to blow up the underground enrichment factory at the Iranian village of Fordow. Netanyahu also looks like Regime Change In Tehran.

It would be a huge escalation and go against Trumps campaigners about an end to foreign interventions. Trumps primary instincts compete here. Just like the pro-Israeli hawks and the ‘America First’ Isolationists in his supporters and cabinet.

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‘Unconditional surrender’

Trump is genuinely not hungry for new international conflicts (let alone American Boots on the ground), but he also wants to be the powerful powerhouse of the world. The diplomatic road for a (previously demolished by himself) temporarily agreement with Iran seems to be concluded. An apparently definitive solution for dismantling Iranian atomic bomb ambitions.

So far, Trump is walking the middle road. Israel knows itself supported by the US and receives information that helps with the attack on Iran. The American armed forces would only be active in it if Iran attacks American soldiers or civilians in the Middle East. Nevertheless, Trump is constantly leaning to the intervention side. Be on Truth Social He no longer writes about the Israeli attacks, but (often in capitals): « America First means many great things, including the fact that Iran should never have a nuclear weapon. «  » We now have complete and total control over the airspace over Iran.  » And: « unconditional surrender! »

He also puts his intelligence chef Tulsi Gabbard aside. Gabbard, who is pronounced against being put in new wars, said in March in the Senate that Iran is « not developing atomic weapon » despite all the uranium enrichment. In Air Force One, Trump says on Monday: « I don’t care what she (Gabbard) said. They (Iran) were very close to getting a nuclear bomb. »

2003

This is precisely such words that Trumps are hunting isolationist camp in the curtains. It sounds like it is 2003 again and the Republican reign stories about mass destruction weapons. The mistakes of the Bush government in-the justification of-the invasion of and the reconstruction of Iraq, determined the rise of Trump and his America First movement. Although the old hawks have not been eradicated. Certainly when it comes to Israel and Iran, many, whether or not evangelical -Christian, Republicans still want to save the Jewish state.

Trump fans of the first hour, the ex-Fox presenter Tucker Carlson and representative Marjorie Taylor Greene lead the public resistance to American interference. Carlson called Trump « complicit » in advance to the unwanted and unnecessary war. Greene wrote: « Everyone who drools for a complete American involvement in the war between Israel and Iran is not America First/Maga. » Trump reacted furiously. « Can someone make it clear that cut Tucker Carlson: Iran should not have an atomic weapon! »

Trumps verbal weapon clatter and Oostwaartse Mobilization do not mean that he is going to bomb Iran. It is possible that he, With direct threatsAyatollah Khamenei mainly wants to drive fear to force a ceasefire and an atomic deal. There is talk of a new negotiating round led by vice president JD Vance. Although he will only get the cooperation of Israel for that if Netanyahu thinks he has caused enough damage.

The spirits are at least mature for a larger war. On Tuesday morning, the White House sent a list of journalists every time Trump expressed himself against the possibility that Iran would develop an atomic weapon. And precisely Vance, who served as a marine in Iraq and returned disillusionedwrote, An epistle on X To praise every decision of the president. Trump offered Iran « the easy way and the » other « road » and « perhaps he decides to take further action, » says Vance. Although he did not bare the critics like his boss. « People are right that they are worried (…) after the last 25 years of idiot foreign policy. »

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