Trump just sold the United States military for the price of a luxury jet and some crypto deals, and American soldiers are now fighting a war that Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE, and Netanyahu bought and paid for.
His own Secretary of State admitted days before the strikes that Iran wasn't enriching uranium.
Trump himself bragged he already "obliterated" their nuclear program last June. Iran had even agreed in Thursday's Switzerland talks to never stockpile enriched uranium. By Saturday morning, bombs were hitting Tehran while children walked to school.
Every justification this administration has offered collapses under its own weight. So ask the only question that matters: who's getting what they paid for?
Qatar gave Trump a $400 million Boeing 747, a flying palace he keeps personally after leaving office through his presidential library foundation. The UAE routed $2 billion through a crypto transaction into the Trump family's financial firm. The Saudis parked $2 billion with Jared Kushner's fund the second he left government.
And who was running America's Iran negotiations right before the bombs fell? Kushner himself, pockets lined by Iran's chief rival, alongside Steve Witkoff, Trump's real estate pal whose son recently courted Qatar's sovereign wealth fund for family business.
Then there's Israel. Netanyahu wasted no time joining the assault, calling on Iranians to "cast off the yoke of tyranny." Destroying Iran has been his white whale for decades, and with Israeli elections coming in October, a joint military campaign against Tehran is a political gift that shores up his standing with voters.
Netanyahu gets to play wartime leader on America's dime while Trump plays tough guy in a baseball cap from Mar-a-Lago. A match made in hell.
The operation explicitly aims to topple Iran's government and destroy its military, the exact outcome Gulf monarchies and Israel have dreamed about for decades. They just couldn't do it alone. So they bought a president who'd do it for them.
Those same Gulf states were publicly pushing diplomacy and privately urging the administration not to strike, performing concern for the cameras while the wire transfers had long since cleared.
Trump once said Obama would start a war with Iran to win reelection. Obama never did. Now Trump, drowning politically before the midterms, did exactly what he accused someone else of plotting.
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