Regime change, you say? I am reminded of Malcolm Tucker's bon mot to the American citizen who objected to him swearing in a public space.

The "best", the least-terrible possible outcome for the US that I can conceive, is that Trump manages to kill some of the senior government / state figures, and a lot of IRGC / Basij thugs and quotidian forces of oppression. But regime change via an air campaign? Never happened before, and I see no reason it could happen now.

Quite possibly his intended exit is a Venezuela outcome, where some second tier stooge gets to be a public figurehead and Trump (likely personally) gets to steal their oil. Basically, he's doing his best to act out a scenario that, say, a naive young anti-Iraq war protester in 2003 thought the Dubya loons were doing.

In short: he's an idiot, with no real grasp of what he's doing or why he's doing it; and he's going to cause the deaths of thousands, possibly tens of thousands, basically so he can look good on TV.

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