Iran’s alleged plot to assassinate former President Donald Trump and hack the Trump campaign amount to “an act of war,” according to Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.
Just days after a would-be assassin’s bullet grazed Trump’s ear in July, the FBI announced that Iran had allegedly been separately plotting to kill the former president. Federal officials later revealed that Iran had hacked and stolen confidential information from the Trump campaign.
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They’re setting up to back Israel in yet another 20 years of war
No setup needed. Israel is an ally and a democracy, and the West isn’t going to let Iran gobble it up for any reason, let alone to be part of some delusional far-right pan-Islamist caliphate with ambitions of an actual genocide.
This position has nearly unanimous support in the annals of government throughout the western world, and nearly unanimous, bipartisan support in DC. Many of the foreign-made bombs Israel is dropping right now were made in the 80’s and 90’s. They don’t drop the new shit. They drop the old shit. We’ve already armed them for the next twenty years. Again: ally, young democracy, surrounded by total nutters: no setup needed.