While we don’t know whether Trump will decide to attack Iran, these are exactly the movements we’ve been expecting, but so far not seeing, in advance of a sustained operation, both defensive and offensive.

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    Yeah, this is not going to happen. The best guarantee of this is that Russia won’t want it to.

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      No, I never said not going to happen. I’m saying it will be a year of sitting right there as a persistent threat to try and get something (what, exactly, no one knows, because WTF knows what this idiot thinks). Then, just like Putin, he can’t have a build up and then just take his toys and go home. So you’ll get a $1 trillion in debt every 30 days (right now it’s 100 days) to once again hold a huge ad hoc military base in the Middle East for a while, then finally go in one day.

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      I think Russia would love a distraction from the embarassing mess their military has become at the frontline.

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        Sacrificing their only remaining ME ally is definitely not worth a transient distraction in the news. Losing Syria was a huge blow for them.