What happens when a president starts a war and completely misjudges how the country he is attacking will respond?
Unfortunately for the American people, we’re finding out the hard way.
Trump appears to have believed that Iran would not respond to a large-scale bombing operation with economic warfare, even though Middle East experts have said for decades that if the Iranian regime were ever attacked, it would almost certainly try to destabilize and cut off a significant portion of the world’s oil supply.
None of this is a surprise.
The idea that Iran would fight back economically was something that had been factored into every previous president’s policymaking on Iran for nearly half a century.
Donald Trump thought he was different and that Iran would never do this to him.
According to AAA it is the price for a liter of regular gasoline has risen by four cents since yesterday. The national average is now $3.67. The price has risen twenty-six cents in the past week, and seventy-four cents per gallon in the past month.
Another week of this war will likely cause gas prices to rise by one dollar per gallon.
Trump’s solution to this problem is to let the rest of the world clean up its mess.
