BATTLE FOR WORLD / MERCURY NEWS | May 20, 2019: The article highlights that as Iran prepare for possible war with the United States, President Donald Trump may turn out to be the best friend it has. (BattleForWorld: What comedy, because a game of cat and mouse false-flags and media wolfs singing Iran did it is being played. The US is slowly moving up to a crescendo of false-flagging something big to blame Iran.)

The article notes that Trump has said there's no inconsistency in his administration’s message, but that the image of incoherence can be useful. (BattleForWorld: Appears to mean, US war preparation and buying time to choose the right moment to implement the attack on Iran.) “At least Iran doesn’t know what to think, which at this point may very well be a good thing!”, trump tweeted Friday (May 17).

But as Trump moves into the second half of his term with major foreign policy issues unresolved, his credibility has suffered, and his options have narrowed. (BattleForWorld: That means Trump is being boxed in to do another war adventure.)

“If you make threats and then people decide you aren’t going to follow through, if you’re looking for the reaction and you stop getting the reaction, the options are either to make larger threats, or to stop going down that road at all,” said Jon Alterman, Middle East Program director at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. And said that “Credibility is a hard thing for a president to maintain.”

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