Trump manufactured the crisis in the first place by tearing up the Iran Nuke deal and further alienating America’s former allies.

And Quelle Surprise! Trump earlier lied about Obama giving Iran money…it was the release of frozen Iranian money . (Obama Didn’t Give Iran ‘150 Billion in Cash’ — FactCheck.or

https://www.factcheck.org/2019/03/obama-didnt-give-iran-150-billion-in-cash/

Mar 1, 2019 — He suggested that the U.S. had returned $150 billion to Iran as part of the deal. … lifted a freeze on Iran’s assets that were held largely in foreign, not U.S., banks. And, to be clear, the money that was unfrozen belonged to Iran.

Trump then imposed sanctions and then more sanctions.

And of course Trump conveniently forgot that Iran was the first country to send in troops to fight ISIS: a nightmare created by the US in the first place.

Oops, didn’t that make Iran an ally in a fight against terrorism?

Then this article claims that Iran has a level of littoral sophistication and yet they supposedly used magnetic limpet mines to attack two tankers?

God, the whole damn thing reminds me of Iraq’s WMD and The Gulf of Tonkin and Hitler’s use of dressing his soldiers up in Polish uniforms and attacking German positions, code named Operation Himmler: see Operation Himmler — Wikipedia, which started World War Two.

Those who have read Project for a New American Century know only too well the strategic value of Iran…just as Russia, China, Pakistan and Turkmenistan if not Turkey have…to say nothing about the Gulf States.

Lastly, this whole orchestrated but incredibly dangerous farce reminds me of Machiavelli and of course Trump is royalty in his own mind:

“Put not your trust in princes, bureaucrats or generals, they will plead expedience while spilling your blood from a safe distance.”

In other words, it won’t be Trump’s children or those of his hawish enablers who will be sent into harm’s way.

As to credit, Trump doesn’t deserve anything but a spanking.