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Trump and the threshold of pain
Trump is escalating strikes on Iranian civilian infrastructure, a move that could leave 60 million GCC residents dependent on desalinated water at risk, analysts said.
It would be so easy for Donald Trump to escape from the trap he has built for himself in the Persian Gulf. Just declare a victory and leave. So what if the Iranians also declare a victory (with a lot more accuracy)? The ‘nuclear weapons’ that gave Trump (and Israeli leader Binyamin Netanyahu) a pretext for attacking Iran never really existed. This would be as close to cost-free for the United States as a lost war ever gets: only a dozen American…