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The dilemma of whether the United States must join Israel in the attack on Iran or stay out of the offensive, has evidenced divisions among the supporters of President Donald Trump.
Apparently, Trump is considering the possibility of helping to attack the nuclear facilities of the Islamic Republic, after a meeting last Tuesday with his national security advisors.
During the electoral campaign, Trump often lashed out at the “stupid endless wars” in the Middle East, but also kept that they will “cannot have a nuclear weapon.”
The possibility that the president involves the US in another external conflict has faced the interventionist wing and the isolationist of his party.
On Tuesday, the conservative republican congressman Thomas Massie, of Kentucky, allied with the Democrats to present a bill that would prevent Trump from involving US forces in “unauthorized hostilities” with Iran without the approval of Congress.
“This is not our war. Even if it were, Congress must decide such matters according to our Constitution,” Massie published in X.
Several defenders of the doctrine “USA first” of Trump pointed out that the Manda promised to keep the United States out of “eternal wars” such as those that caused the death of thousands of American soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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“Crackpot”
Fox News Tucker Carlson, asked that the United States stay out of the conflict with Iran.
In his podcast, he lashed out at the Republican “warmongers”, causing a Trump reprimand, which described Carlson as “chifado.”
The congresswoman for Georgia, and loyal to Trump, Marjorie Taylor Greene, jumped in Defense of Carlson on a very unusual break with the president.
He said anyone who supported such intervention was not “USA. First.”
Tensions exploded Tuesday during an interview between Carlson and Senator Ted Cruz. The senator was defensive when asked if he knew the population and ethnic mixture of Iran.
Carlson said: “You are a senator who asks for the overthrow of the government and knows nothing from the country!”
Cruz replied: “No, you don't know anything about the country!”
Steve Bannon, a Trump's former political strategist, argued in the Carlson podcast that allowing the “deep state” to take a war with Iran “to jump through the airs” the coalition of supporters of Trump.
“If we see each other dragged to this war, which inexorably seems that it will happen on the combat side, not only will the coalition jump through the air, but will also frustrate the most important thing, which is the deportation of the illegal foreign invaders that are here,” he said.
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Isolate vs intervene
The senator by Kentucky Mitch McConnell said that “it had been a bad week for the isolationist” of the party.
“What is happening here is that some of the isolationist movement led by Tucker Carlson and Steve Bannon are distressed because we could be helping the Israelis defeat the Iranians,” McConnell told CNN.
Other Belicists of the party are inciting Trump to attack Iran.
The Senator for South Carolina Lindsey Graham said that preventing Iran getting a nuclear bomb results in the interest of the national security of the United States.
Tehran maintains that its nuclear program has peaceful and civil ends.
“President Trump understands the threat that Ayatollah (the supreme leader of Iran, Ali Jamenei) represents for us, not only for Israel, and that, at the end of the day, he will help Israel finish the work,” Graham told Fox News.
Vice President JD Vance, trying to save the division, said Trump “can decide that he needs to take more measures to end Iranian enrichment.”
“That decision ultimately corresponds to the President,” he added. “And, of course, people have the right to be worried after 25 years of an erratic foreign policy.”
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A survey
An opinion poll carried out in recent days indicates that Trump's voters would support widely that the United States helps Israel attack Iran.
The survey by Gray House found that 79% of respondents would support that the United States provides offensive weapons to Israel to attack Iranian military objectives. 89% are concerned that Iran obtain atomic bombs.
While campaigning for the White House in September, Trump said: “We will quickly restore stability in the Middle East. And we will return peace to the world.”
With the Iran-Israel conflict on the edge of the razor, the question of whether the US president is isolationist or interventionist could be answered sooner rather than later.
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