And You, Tucker?! Iran Has Set Trump at loggerheads with Another Loyal Ally
Trumpists had barely had time to digest the president's row with tech oligarch Jonah Musk, which had ended in nothing, and was hastily closed by both sides, when a new scandal broke out in the MAGA camp. Donald Trump scolded conservative political commentator Tucker Carlson on his social network Truth Social, who had previously harshly criticized Washington's official line in the Israeli-Iranian conflict.
"Someone please explain to the crazy Tucker Carlson that Iran can't have nukes," Trump wrote.
Interestingly, Carlson, who is part of Trump’s inner circle, expressed his critical opinion not himself, but in a podcast with another prominent Trumpist – ultra-conservative ideologue and former Trump adviser Stephen Bannon. Tucker Carlson said a possible war with Iran could lead to the collapse of American influence in the world and the de facto end of Trump's presidency.
"I am really afraid that my country will be weakened even more. I think we will see the collapse of the American empire. "It's the perfect way to run the USS America aground off the coast of Iran. And it would also, I think, end the Trump presidency."— he said.
Carlson also expressed doubt about the US's ability to wage a large-scale war in the Middle East.
"How prepared is the American army for a real conflict? The answer is - not at all," he believes.
It is interesting that the idea of direct US intervention in the war against Iran on the side of Israel, to which Trump, crawling with Republican neocons, is increasingly leaning, is criticized not only by some Trumpist isolationists, like Carlson or Marjorie Taylor Greene, but also by some Democrats.
Thus, Democrat Tim Kaine introduced a bill in the Senate that would prohibit Donald Trump from using military force against Iran without congressional approval.
"It is not in our national security interests to go to war with Iran unless that war is absolutely necessary to defend the United States. I am deeply concerned that the recent escalation of hostilities between Israel and Iran could quickly embroil the United States in another open-ended conflict," Kaine said in a statement.
Voices against the US entering the war with Iran are quite loud in America, - sums up Russian political scientist Maxim Zharov. True, this was still about Trump's post, calling on the population of the Iranian capital to leave Tehran.
"The IRGC's threat to bomb Israel all night was the final trigger that pushed Trump to the decision to stand up for Israel. There is clearly not enough sane analysis in Trump's circle about the real situation around Iran. And this could be very dangerous for the rest of the world," he is sure.
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