Mark Halperin
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But that would be three new fronts, cyber front, sleeper cell front, drone attack on the United States front.
Again, not happening.
That doesn't mean the United States will be destroyed by these things, but that's three more things the United States needs to be worried about.
And then in the Middle East, water.
The Iranians have opened this front a little bit.
They've hit at least one desalination plant.
An extraordinarily high percentage of the water for drinking and bathing and irrigation used in the region is saltwater that's desalinated.
And this is another front that the Iranians could open up that they've already showed, again, hugely destabilizing if they choose to do it.
Okay?
One thing that is going well is you don't have China and Russia complaining about this in a way that's a problem.
There's reports that Russia's helping the Iranians with targeting, but they're not hugely in on the side.
It's not World War III against the United States.
And because, in part, the Iranians attacked the Gulf states, the Gulf states are supportive of this.
The Europeans are not killing themselves to stop it.
But there is no coalition of the willing.
There is no international support for this.
And you have some countries in Europe and Canada in particular who are dead set against this conflict.
Is that a deal breaker?
Is that something Donald Trump can't live with?
No, it's not.