According to several different military analysts, Trump was recently discussing the nuclear launch codes with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Dan Caine. Apparently there was a heated discussion, and General Caine told him no. The situation by no means warrants action that extreme. The ceasefire will be ending very soon, and Trump wants to escalate in order to, in his mind, finish Iran off and extracate himself from the region. He’s already bored with the war, and he knows how desperately unpopular it’s making him. The usual American tactic of simply declaring victory and leaving would not work, as the loss and the humiliation of it would be too obvious. Trump’s dangerously unhinged rhetoric has painted the himself into a corner. The US cannot win this war, but neither can it admit that it lost. Trump’s narcissism guarantees that he can never acknowledge defeat. Even if a deal were reached between the US and Iran, Israel would destroy it in order to ensure the continuation of the war, since their goal is the utter destruction of Iran.
by Nicole Foss
