Iran War Strategy Paying Off - Gulf Turns On Trump

Depleted defence capabilities trigger ultimatums, a war related betting scandal, are things going more and more Iran's way? Right, so Marco Rubio has gone on the record and admitted the United States struck Iran because it knew Israel was going to strike Iran, and it expected Iran to hit American forces in the region in response, so Washington chose to hit first to reduce the American body count Yeah right. Netanyahu said jump and Trump said how high. And that is why the tables have now turned, because the excuse is no longer “Iran was about to attack America,” it is “we joined a war because Israel was about to start it and we didn’t want to take the retaliation.” Well you’re idiots then, because now you are and if you expect us to believe any of that, you think we’re idiots too. US Central Command has now confirmed six American service members killed in action as of 4pm Eastern time yesterday, including the recovery of the remains of two who were previously unaccounted for from a facility struck during Iran’s initial retaliation. A war sold as preventing American deaths therefore has already produced American deaths, and the administration’s first job therefore becomes managing the gap between the nonsense they are spouting and that toll. Saudi Arabia’s defence ministry spokesperson, Major General Turki al-Maliki, has said the United States embassy compound in Riyadh was hit by two drones, causing a limited fire and minor material damage, and no injuries were reported, and the phrase “limited fire” is the kind of minimising language states use when they are trying to keep the streets calm, but the act itself is the point, because a diplomatic compound in a capital being hit means the host-state bargain is now being contested by force.