Donald Trump has misread Iran from the start. Since coming to power in his first administration and tearing up the Obama administration’s nuclear deal with Iran under the mistaken belief that he could negotiate a “better deal,” this president has tried to force the Iranians into accepting a deal through military force.
When Trump withdrew the United States from the Iran nuclear deal without Iran committing any violations of the deal, he made it impossible to rebuild the trust with the Iranians that would be necessary to negotiate and implement a new deal.
Trump broke diplomatic trust with Iran and left America with the only choice of military action to force Iran to comply and abandon its nuclear program.
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Donald Trump set the wheels of this conflict in motion, but within the military option there are sub-options, and this is where Trump has doomed his policy to failure.
The consensus among Middle East experts for decades has been that, short of national collapse, the only military option to force the overthrow of the Iranian regime is an invasion on the ground.
Trump has refused for years to commit to a ground invasion of Iran, which is why his half-measure airstrikes would endanger American lives, kill innocent people in the Middle East region, create regional conflict, and fail to achieve his goals.
Let’s talk about Trump’s flawed logic and why this operation is already failing.