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Plumbing the Depths of Trump’s Iran Debacle
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TPM – Talking Points Memo
Here in the U.S., we’re looking at the Iran War in terms of whether the U.S. should have started it in the first place, how it’s affecting oil prices, how it’s going to affect the midterms and a bunch of other things.
But there’s another way to look at it, which is that Iran is putting on a global performance of standing head to head with the full might of the U.S. military and pulling it off.
By their actions, we can see pretty clearly that the Iranian government does not fear Donald Trump.
It is fair to say that this is not actually the full might of the U.S. military in a theoretical sense.
The president could order the U.S. military to mount a full scale ground invasion of Iran, occupy the country, dismantle the state’s system of command, control and repression.