Trump’s Iran Threats Reveal a Recurrent Delusion About Oil
TL;DR
Slate’s Fred Kaplan argues that Trump’s latest threats against Iran—promising to hit it hard and take Kharg Island to dominate its oil markets—reveal a persistent delusion about American power and oil leverage, contradicted by past outcomes and warned against by advisers, leaving U.S. credibility diminished and policy unclear.
- Trump Hasn’t Shed His Biggest Delusion About Iran Slate Magazine
- How Trump has deceived himself on Iran CNN
- Threatening war, predicting peace: Are Trump’s comments part of a strategy? The Christian Science Monitor
- Trump the unreliable narrator fails to force reality to match his story on Iran The Guardian
- Three choices now define Trump's Iran war and all of them have a cost Fox News
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