Maga battle with Israel for Trump’s mind

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Is he or not? Donald Trump is proud to be unpredictable. He said on Wednesday when he was asked if he was planning an Iran’s strike: “I may do it.” “I may not do that … no one knows what I will do.”

In practice, however, Trump is often easy to decipher. Starting from his first term and the first 152 days of his second, Trump’s most extreme speech is the introduction to the opposite. Ask Kim Jong Un. In 2017, Trump pledged “fire and anger” on “Rocket Man” for North Korea. The following year, he revealed that Kim sent him “beautiful messages and … we fell in love.”

It did not come from it. Can Iran be in a similar shift? Trump signals are mixed. But his announcement on Thursday of a period of two weeks indicates that he is away from the war. In Trump’s world, two long weeks. However, it can also run ten cents.

Denzing in the invasion of Iraq in 2003 was one of Trump’s most effective ways to refer to a popular break from the traditional republic and the wars of the Bush family family. But this arose from his reading of the public mood, and not some human motivation. His record shows that he is happy to break any pledge if he feels an advantage.

Does it think that the huge bomb strike in the United States on Iranian nuclear facilities will be fast and effective? Or will it lead to an Iranian escalation? The first option will be difficult for Trump resistance. But increasingly urgent warnings of Maga influencers about the second gave him a clear stop. Nothing shouts “the war forever” with a louder voice than the United States joining Israel’s attack on the Iranian regime. Consequently, the bitter battle between the new registration and conservatives for Trump’s ear is the greatest test yet about the amount of war that is preparing for risk.

The two -hour famous interview was Tikkar Carlson, the former Fox News broadcaster Al -Maji, who conducted this week with Ted Cruz, Senator Texas and Trumpin, in practice. Each of them claimed that he was the simple flame guard from the opposite polar situations. Trump’s administrative method is usually to encourage drinking between dams. This enhances its role as the decision.

But Israel Benjamin Netanyahu, not Trump or loyalists, who tire the agenda. For three decades, Netanyahu warned that Iran is close to the nuclear collapse. In 2018, Trump persuaded to withdraw from the American -Iranian nuclear deal in Barack Obama, which reduced sanctions in exchange for the borders of the Iranian nuclear program. Although Netanyahu claimed that Tehran was breaking the deal, the doubt that he was afraid to work.

The Trump campaign, which followed, resulted in “maximum pressure” on Iran, resulted in his most accurate military action so far – the assassination of Qasim Soleimani, the most powerful leader of the regime. But Trump is just a strike, after the CIA confirmed that Iran’s revenge would be silent.

The clearest battle for Trump’s mind is therefore between Netanyahu, who needs the United States to end the war he started, and Steve Bannon, who War room Daily view is a direct line of the Maga base. The Banon case is that Trump should not be deceived in Israel’s first policy.

Sixty percent of Republicans told Yougov/Economist a survey this week that they wanted Trump negotiating with Iran. Only 18 percent are opposed. This is almost completely compatible with America’s response as a whole. The specter of high oil prices and the disruption of the supply chain is what prompted Trump’s stop. If the Pentagon is unable to guarantee Trump that its costs of 30,000 pounds, Netanyahu will have to find other tools of persuasion.

It is supported by a familiar choir. The highest voice of these is Robert Murdoch Fox News, whose star, including Sean Hanity and Laura Ingharaham, is hitting the night warmers. If Rip Van Winkle slept in 2003 and woke up today, he would realize a little change.

It is difficult to distinguish between Fox Network to change the system – the ease with which the stars of the network can be accomplished – about its case to purify Saddam Hussein in Iraq. Other enthusiasts of the war at the time and now, such as Lindsay Graham, the pioneer in the US Senate, the stadium at night to Trump on Fox.

Few of the familiar characters that made a mistake in Iraq paid a lot of price to eventually sank the presidency of George W. Bush. But Trump is not afraid of them. In every case, men like Graham and Cherz have proven that they will develop a line of what Trump decides.

Below is also a rare moment when Vladimir Putin and Russia, European allies in America, say the same. Each of them urges the cancellation of the escalation. Trump hears a similar abstinence of his royal friends in the Gulf. The leader of Israel alone on the world stage is arguing in the war.

The Battle of Netanyahu is alive – in his political profession. Trump’s instincts are ruthless. In the coming days, Netanyahu will not reap any effort to persuade Trump that their interests are the same and itself. It would be surprising that Trump was intentionally in the use of his sources of destiny for another.

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