'Trump's Iran war makes no sense... on purpose': James O'Brien
March 5, 2026
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16:42Now Playing'Trump's Iran war makes no sense... on purpose': James O'Brien
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as posted by the channelJames O'Brien argues that the growing list of explanations for Donald Trump launching military action against Iran may itself be the strategy.
Going through statements from the Trump administration, O’Brien says the justification for war keeps shifting, from regime change, to alleged assassination plots, to claims about terrorism and nuclear threats. The result, he suggests, is 'deliberate ambiguity.'
“If you’ve got half a dozen and counting conflicting claims about why a war is being undertaken,” he says, “then you can never be accused of failing or succeeding.”
It comes after White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has said President Donald Trump’s decision to attack Iran - which subsequently ignited a conflict that has sparked chaos across the Middle East - was grounded in what she called a “feeling based on fact” that Iran would imminently attack the United States and its allies.
That explanation directly contradicted what Secretary of State Marco Rubio said to reporters a day earlier. Rubio, speaking ahead of a briefing with congressional leadership, said Monday that an imminent Israeli attack forced the U.S. to act in order to prevent retaliatory strikes against American forces.
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