Trump is planning to address the nation sometime tonight. I am sure his team’s coordination with Congress to deal with War Powers Act rules will be seamless.
Now they have decided that it just may be better if Trump didn’t address the nation according to the Press Secretary, according to Josh Dawsey of WaPo:
We can all agree that Donald Trump owns every life lost on both sides from this right? Like I’m assuming none of the Trumpists and Trumpists-lite on this board will claim otherwise?
Israel wants no part of this. NATO wants no part of it. Russia and China are likely to be supporting Iran, quietly or openly.
I remember when Trump gave one of his more coherent speeches prior to the election. He said “America First doesn’t mean America Alone.” It appears it does.
Although Israel already used the F-35 first, it would still mark something of an “initiation” for the USAF to use F-35s, and this might just be it - unless there has been some American F-35 mission already in Syria that wasn’t publicized.
Just a few minutes ago on Cuomo’s CNN show they were saying the missiles seemed to be intentionally targeted at unpopulated areas, at least unpopulated by Americans. Don’t know about Iraqi casualties.
The pundits seemed to think this was Iran’s way of retaliating without wanting to escalate further.