The war has not ended yet, who should be held responsible for the Trump administration's hasty military action against Iran?
Trump launched a war against Iran without declaring it. Who should take the blame?
On the 21st, Bloomberg published a commentary article on the Middle East situation, mentioning that Trump's hasty military action against Iran was "largely influenced by Netanyahu and media mogul Murdoch."
Although Trump later brought the issue of military action to his circle of advisors, due to the fact that the primary criterion for selecting officials during his term is "loyalty," rather than professionalism and courage, almost no one dared to openly and directly point out that this was "a poorly considered idea." People like Vance chose to privately urge colleagues to advise indirectly rather than step forward themselves to prevent it, out of fear of angering Trump.
Bloomberg believes another reason why the advisors ultimately failed to stop Trump was the White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles. Her approach is to let Trump do as he pleases, controlling only the people and matters around him—this strategy earned her Trump's absolute trust, and also caused the White House internal mechanism to lose the last effective check on Trump's impulsive behavior.
This hasty military action also exposed the makeshift nature of Trump's team. According to a Republican source, many advisors were "indifferent to the risks that war might cause energy prices to surge and damage Trump's economic policies," seemingly never realizing that Iran might block the Strait of Hormuz, let alone preparing contingency plans for it. This disregard for strategic consequences quickly pushed a military adventure into an unpredictable economic and geopolitical quagmire.
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