Trump Embraces Israel's Aggression
The president is engaging in more of his usual thuggish extortion.
Trump is trying to use Israel’s ongoing illegal aggression against Iran to force the latter to capitulate:
President Donald Trump told CNN that the United States “of course” supports Israel and called the strikes on Iran overnight “a very successful attack” in a brief phone call.
“Iran should have listened to me when I said — you know I gave them, I don’t know if you know but I gave them a 60-day warning and today is day 61,” the president told CNN. “They should now come to the table to make a deal before it’s too late. It will be too late for them. You know the people I was dealing with are dead, the hardliners,” the president said.
The president is engaging in more of his usual thuggish extortion. He is telling Iran to cave to his unreasonable demands or die. No self-respecting government would negotiate or agree to anything under these conditions. If Iran was unwilling to capitulate under the threat of military action, it isn’t going to yield now that its territory has been attacked and some of its top military leadership has been killed. If Trump actually thinks that letting Israel run wild will make Iran more compliant, he is deluded.