RE: I’m on Bernie’s side.
OK, I’ll bite. Who do you suspect attacked the oil tankers?
“Who do you suspect attacked the oil tankers?”
Anyone interested in higher oil prices. So: Iran, Russia, Iraq, Lybia, come to mind. High on the list would be Russia working with one of the many factions inside Iran. (It is not nearly as unified as it appears.)
Not on the list is: Trump, who wants to keep the current low oil prices.
Alternative attackers include unauthorized actors in Iran (in the military) who are true believers in jihad and not merely con men like most of Iran’s jihadcracy.
Every nation on the Persian Gulf dislikes Iran and would love to see the US get into a fight with them. Any of them, could recruit the expertise for such an attack. Saudi Arabia is the leading suspect there.
Israel would like the US to fight Iran. They have the means and expertise for such an attack.
The Russians owe us payback for Afghanistan and would love to see us entangled in yet ANOTHER war. They also have the means and the expertise.
The PRC, ditto.
This is a case of “Lets You and Him fight” on the behalf of other nations that do not have the best interests of the US in mind. The attack didn’t benefit Iran, and fighting Iran on the behalf those other nations doesn’t benefit us. We should tell them to shovel their own $#!+.
We should remember the Gulf of Tonkin, and how the Kuwaitis manipulated us with the babies being thrown out incubators story.
This whole thing stinks of deception and manipulation.