For a man who has engaged in furious conversations over the last week urging Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stop military hostilities that could undo efforts to forge a peace deal with Iran, Donald Trump has failed utterly to heed his own advice.
Trump’s surprise decision on Tuesday night to launch military reprisals against the Iranian regime came after a US Apache attack helicopter was downed while on patrol near the Strait of Hormuz.
There is still confusion over whether the attack was caused by an Iranian missile, a drone, or some other incident. But when the US President claimed on his social media account that the Apache was “shot down” by Iranian forces, he said he deemed reprisals a “necessity”.
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So American forces went back into action, engaging in what US Central Command (Centcom) described as a “proportional response to unjustified Iranian aggression”.
