John Mearsheimer
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And this past week, early in the week, President Trump made it clear that if the Iranians did not surrender by the end of this week, that he would then go after civilian infrastructure in Iran.
He'd go after bridges, he'd go after power plants and so forth and so on.
But what happened was that at the end of this past week, he started or the United States started to go after civilian infrastructure.
We went after bridges.
We went after power plants and we went after a desalination plant inside of Iran.
Now what the Iranians did was they instantly retaliated against similar targets in countries like Kuwait.
Furthermore, they ramped up the bombing campaign against Jordan and they bombed Saudi Arabia for the first time in almost four months.
So they made it clear that they were going to play tit for tat.
Moreover, the Iranians made it clear that next week, if President Trump went after civilian infrastructure in a big way, they would basically shut down the flow of oil out of the Persian Gulf.
and out of the Red Sea and out of the United Arab Emirates, which has a very important port that's located outside of the Strait of Hormuz.
All of this would be shut down.
And furthermore, the Iranians would go after all sorts of power plants, desalination plants across the Middle East.
So the Iranians made it clear that they were playing hardball.
Now, when you look at these threats in the context of what the Iranians have actually been able to do over the past few days,
in terms of hitting various targets in Jordan and in other places in the Middle East, it's manifestly clear that the Iranians have the capability to target all sorts of infrastructure inside of these Middle East states and do great destruction.
And both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal have run articles in recent days
the missile strikes are.
So I think what has happened here, Chris, and I'm just saying I think this is what happened, is that last night, which is Saturday slash Sunday night, the American retaliation
against Iran did not include civilian infrastructure in any meaningful way.
They did not go after bridges.
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