President Donald Trump is facing a pivotal challenge: how to complete his joint attacks with Israel on Iran without mass U.S. casualties and before everyday Americans start to feel pain at the gas pump.
Iran is the latest, and most consequential, in a series of foreign interventions the president has undertaken with the aim of getting in and out before Americans suffer tangible consequences.
But on Sunday, Trump made it clear there is no quick off-ramp out of the Middle East. "Combat operations continue at this time," Trump said in a six-minute video posted to Truth Social "They will continue until all of our objectives are achieved. We have very strong objectives."
With a regime change move in Venezuela, Trump managed to skirt American military deaths while aligning with the country's interim leader to profit off of oil sales. This time in the Middle East, the obstacles ahead for the White House are much more complex than last year's one-and-done strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities or the capture of the former authoritarian leader of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro.
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