Iran

[scottw]

Originally Posted by Pete F.

I would rather he built a coalition

for killing a drone?

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by scottw

for killing a drone?

for attacking the tankers, the whole world should be abandoning Iran. But if Trump took the time to build a coalition, the TDS crowd would attack him for stalling and not being decisive.
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[Pete F.]

Originally Posted by scottw

for killing a drone?

Originally Posted by Jim in CT

for attacking the tankers, the whole world should be abandoning Iran. But if Trump took the time to build a coalition, the TDS crowd would attack him for stalling and not being decisive.
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Much like Trump's comments on Kashoggi and MBS, the UAE now says they have seen no proof that Iran was responsible. Perhaps they are concerned that Bolton is repeating the mistakes made in Iraq, but with a more powerful adversary.

Or they realize that politically the Iranian politicians cannot be seen by their citizens as losers and need to be able to claim some victory before negotiating.

What Iran has done to date is very limited, odd how they just damaged some tankers by placing limpet mines at the waterline or above and shot down a drone. Do you think they don't have the capability to do much more damage just with limpet mines? In 1971 Pakistan in one night suffered the loss of 60 thousand tons of shipping from limpet mines, that's likely why the Indian navy is in the Gulf now.

Now we get to see if Trump is capable of complicated diplomatic negotiations, I've seen little evidence so far that he is capable of being anything other than a bully.