Yep,that was clear to almost everyone since the beginning,I'm pretty sure it was a trump attempt to distract people feom the epstein files while helping his fellow war criminal netanyahu committing genocide in Gaza and Lebanon undisturbed. Two birds with one stone...

We've seen this story before. Empires tend to overstretch.

@rimu
"Likely" is doing a lot of work here

I would bet this piece is just rampant speculation dressed up with fancy pundit words like "geostratigic"

eg:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/10/world/middleeast/iran-economy-layoffs.html