Israel Slammed By Iran’s Biggest Missiles Yet; Trump’s War Spirals Into Iraq

Trump sold escalation as control; now Iraq is in play, Israel is taking heavier Iranian strikes, and the war is spilling across the region. Right, so if we thought Donald Trump was already losing control of the war with Iran, nothing quite nails that on than it managing to spill over even more borders and in this case, the US is now back in Iraq it seems, but perhaps not for very long. The United States embassy compound in Baghdad has been struck, the embassy has told American citizens to leave Iraq immediately after repeated attacks, and Iran has answered the war on Israel’s side of the map with one of its hardest barrages yet, including the first reported wartime use of the Sejjil and a wave that Iranian state reporting says also used Khorramshahr, Kheybar, Qadr and Emad missiles, so they are now delving into newer and heavier munitions as the defence systems run out of juice, just as every credible commentator on the military goings on in the Middle East predicted would happen. So Donald Trump’s wartime sales pitch has now bitten the dust. This was supposed to look like pressure working, deterrence being restored, enemies being cowed into submission, all the usual rubbish that gets dragged out every time Washington and Benjamin Netanyahu, be it the real of 6 fingered AI version of him these days, decide that dropping more explosives on more people is somehow a sign of control. Instead, Trump has got Baghdad under strike pressure, Israelis under alerts again, and a public leave-now warning in Baghdad sitting there in black and white where everybody can see it. Trump chose to back an expanding war on Iran, Netanyahu chose to keep widening the field while Gaza is still being pulverised and Lebanon is still being hit, and they both chose to act as though the region would simply absorb whatever they threw at it and then politely line up to thank them afterwards. That was always stupid, but now it is stupid in public. When an embassy compound is struck in Baghdad and the official answer is not swagger but a warning to your own citizens to get out by land because commercial flights are not available, you are no longer advertising anything like control of this situation.