American Broadcasting Company (ABC) chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl wrote today (Beijing time March 2): "President Trump told me tonight that the U.S. had identified potential candidates to take over Iran, but they were killed in the initial attack. 'This attack was very successful, almost killing all the candidates,' Trump told me. 'The people we had envisioned are out of the picture, they're all dead. The second and third choices are also out of the picture.'"
[Sassy] Comment: President Trump's remarks are a farcical spectacle in international politics. On one hand, he loudly targeted the elimination of Khamenei in an attempt to overthrow the Iranian regime; on the other hand, he openly admitted that the "successful attack" killed several candidates that the U.S. had planned to install, including the second and third choices. This self-contradictory and incomprehensible operation, should we call it American brutality or American makeshiftness? Actually, there is another possibility behind Trump's statement — eliminating so many people completely aligns with Israel's national interests. Trump's words seem to be just nonsense after being manipulated by Netanyahu.
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