What the heck is going on with Iran, and this imminent war? Unless hostilities start while I write this, nothing has happened yet.
If you look about the web, you get all kinds of opinions. I'm getting the idea here that they don't know any more than anybody else does. If Trump plays his cards closely enough, only he knows what he will ultimately do. Everybody else is just guessing.
So it isn't a matter of speculation here. I haven't got any idea what he will or won't do.
What I CAN do is to state what I'd like to see.
I voted for him on the basis of America First. So what do we get out of this war, should one occur?
Well, we might do away with a terrorist sponsoring state. But you don't need two aircraft carriers for that when you got thousands of nukes and the means to deliver them.
I wouldn't mind if he sent in the nukes and did away with this country once and for all.
But nobody has done that, and it wouldn't go down very well. However, if Iran sank both of our carriers with the help of Chinese tech; that could provide the rationale for exactly that response. But I wouldn't threaten it. It would be implied. It is always implied, and that's why Iran wants their own nukes.
If the USA was ever going to do something like this, it would've been done decades ago.
Ain't gonna happen.
If you cannot get that done, and you end up losing two carriers, then what good does it do?
The same goes with everything else. In the end, if you do an existential move with a regime that has nukes, it will mean a nuclear exchange. Who wins that one? NOBODY.
Unless he gets an idea that nobody else has thought of, and can almost certainly achieve it; I'd say he does nothing at all. He will hear about it nonstop, of course. But it would only be acknowledging reality. It's why we cannot do anything about Ukraine. If we keep pushing that, it will lead to an existential situation for SOMEBODY on the losing side. Then the nukes could fly.
China's involvement here has brought this thing into the existential realm. Now the question is this: What benefit can be gained from such a situation?
I hope he decides against the military move, and withdraws from military and diplomatic entanglements. Our problems are right here. It's what I've been saying all along.
Trump's enemies will attack him no matter what he does, or doesn't do. There's really nothing for him here. Unless he can achieve an quick and bloodless coup in Iran. This bloodless victory is not something I would count on.