Take on the latest escalation

We're still trying to grapple with the decision to bomb the #2 in Iran as it will likely escalate what already looked like a fully heightened situation.
One thing liberals haven't explained is what the reaction should have been to the storming of the US embassy in Iraq. I can see the argument that the US was reacting to the recent escalation but when you have Trump potentially wagging the dog to avoid the latest Deutschbank news from taking the front page or just greasing the tracks for a 2020 re-election campaign, I never give him the benefit

A few predictable things happened though

- oil prices spiked (good for the US manufacturing)
- defense stocks spiked (good for US manufacturing)
- tweets emerged from Trump presiding Obama was going to exactly this to win re-election (Trump admitting in public his nefarious reasoning by pinning it on his opponents)
- john Bolton predicted this was a regime change move


Hold on tight, this will get ugly