Today, Scott Johnson wondered aloud how we’d ever know what really might be the deal, in Iran.
A few days earlier, Paul Mirengoff too wondered “what Trump was thinking”.
It turns out… he wasn’t.
Thinking, that is.
And it is plain he hasn’t a single competent foreign policy advisor — or equally probable, he’s not listening to anyone who is competent.
Exhibit A for this proposition is… That our most steadfast ally in the region aside from Israel — the Saudis — have now denied US war planes access to Saudi airspace. This effectively makes relatively safe operations over Iran nearly impossible. It becomes nearly impossible to safely support longer range bombers — with the more agile, but shorter range jet fighters — unless we have access to Saudi airspace.
It takes a colossal amount of stupidity to ruin a relationship in the Gulf of this magnitude.
So thanks again, Donald Trump.
And I’ll note again, that none of these hard right racist frothy liars will call him out for what he’s done and doing, here: he is actively turning the entire region into a quagmire.
Purely as a result of malign idiocy.
“Heck of a job, there Brownie.”
Out.
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