i agree it was likely all staged - didn't he tweet shortly after the UAV downing that he didn't want war? doesn't make sense to then follow up with this kinda attack. the scary thing would be for this attack to be in autopilot mode, and trump cancelling it just when he found out, but i doubt that'd be legal or possible to even begin the attack without a presidential signoff.Broodwich wrote:QUOTE (Broodwich @ Jun 21 2019, 03:35 PM) I think the decision to cancel was actually a good idea by trump. Whether he ever had an intention of following through with the strike or is using it as theater, actually striking would just give iranians a rally cry and a bunch of international support. I certainly hope it was the latter, because if he cancelled it at the last minute then it means he didn't actually pay attention to what the plan was in the first place. Not really what you want in a commander..
another interesting scenario is that trump gives the plan a go-ahead, plan gets leaked (practically in real-time), trump cancels attack because he lost the element of surprise.
