Source: Common Dreams
by Steven Harper
“President Donald Trump launched the Iran war based on his ‘gut instinct’. Global financial markets (the North Star that guides Trump) are telling him what his advisers and congressional Republicans won’t: His ‘gut’ blew it badly, and his efforts to appease the markets are making the debacle worse. He has proceeded in three phases. We’re now at the Trump panic phase. Phase No. 1: Trump’s Gut Was Wrong and the Markets Scolded Him. Trump ignored the facts and relied on gut instinct to launch the war without making the case to America’s allies or the public. … Trump’s baseless opinion contradicted the justification for war that Secretary of State Marco Rubio had provided to Congress a day earlier. Rubio said that Israel was going to attack and that Iran would retaliate by attacking US interests in the region.” (03/30/26)