As the US media row in behind (already forgetting their political system lied about WMD’s in Iraq) and the Democrats flail around helplessly (impeachment now a forgotten thing), Trump says he killed an Iranian military chief because he was planning more attacks on Americans. So, what on earth does he think is going to happen now? This from today’s New York Times:


It’s almost as if Trump has an election looming or something…..
https://news.sky.com/video/a-video-from-2011-shows-trump-saying-obama-will-start-a-war-to-get-reelected-11900672
Hard to discern any kind of strategy beyond short term political expedience in the assassination. Either that or Mr Trump had a particularly bad round of golf and was more than usually open to the siren voices of the extreme war-hawks in his administration?
We’ll see Lauren but with this character there is always one over-riding motive: self-interest.