SATISH SHARMA - not just Rotigraphy.: The US is now trapped in a war of Israel's making, in which it has knowingly destroyed all offramps. That is why Trump is so frustrated and lashing out at Israel.

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Shaiel Ben-Ephraim

Trump is pissed off. Israel is clearly trying to lock the United States into this disastrous conflict in Iran. Trump has every reason to pull out before economic and military disaster befall the country and his party. So Israel have done the following to force his hand: 1) The assassination of Ali Larijani was designed to eliminate the most viable Iranian negotiator who could have brokered a grand bargain with Trump. 2) Trump has signaled a desire to wrap up kinetic operations, the IDF recently announced a new list of thousands of internal security targets like the Basij and IRGC infrastructure that would require weeks or months of additional strikes 3) Israel pressured the Trump administration to include the total dismantling of Hezbollah and the Houthis as a prerequisite for any ceasefire, terms Iran is virtually guaranteed to reject, thereby blocking any diplomatic exit 4) By shifting from strikes on missile sites to decapitation strikes on Iranian political leadership, Israel is pushing for regime collapse. This creates a power vacuum that prevents Trump from declaring victory 5) Netanyahu’s rhetoric of "Total Victory" mirrors his approach in Gaza, creating a public expectation that anything less than the end of the Islamic Republic is a failure, which traps Trump between his America First base and his pro-Israel base 6) The attack on Iran's South Pars gas field extends the conflict by initiating a cycle of Iranian counter-escalation against Gulf energy infrastructure, forcing a prolonged U.S. naval presence to protect global oil flows. The physical destruction of infrastructure eliminates immediate diplomatic oil-for-peace deals, forcing a slower, more volatile regime collapse strategy 7) When the war shifts from deterrence to regime survival, the target is no longer a specific policy but the existence of the government itself. This makes the regime less likely to compromise, as they perceive any concession as a step toward their own execution or collapse. The US is now trapped in a war of Israel's making, in which it has knowingly destroyed all offramps. That is why Trump is so frustrated and lashing out at Israel.

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Barak Ravid

@BarakRavid

Trump on Truth Social: Israel, out of anger for what has taken place in the Middle East, has violently lashed out at a major facility known as South Pars Gas Field in Iran. A relatively small section of the whole has been hit. The United States knew nothing about this