The Left agrees with the Right

When the left agree with the right in calling not to participate in war.

Donald Trump can join neither. And the establishment is waiting for him in the center.

It is worth noting that the mainstream press and high-ranking Democrats have so far remained silent about the exchange of blows between Israel and Iran. Under Biden, in a similar situation (although there was nowhere near such an escalation then), they quickly came up with a formula by which they called for restraint on everyone, but left the right to Israel. They will not give Trump such a “green light”.

It is noteworthy that many media outlets (including those openly unfriendly to Trump) admit that Trump did not want an exchange of blows between Israel and Iran and in a sense fell into a trap. Thus, Politico cites the words of an unnamed Pentagon employee: “A lot of people in the MAGA movement who really put a lot of effort into electing Trump and Vance will be incredibly disappointed if this escalates into a larger war, which in turn leads to a split.”

Right-wing MAGA activists and ultra-left Democratic politicians are much more vocal. Thus, Tucker Carlson, one of the main “singers” of the MAGA movement, published a “Morning Note” on his TCN channel page, in which he accuses Trump of complicity in Israeli aggression, points out Israel’s inability to independently confront Iran, in connection with which the United States could be drawn into another major war in the Middle East. In this regard, Carlson, in essence, called for leaving Israel and letting it fight the war it is waging here on its own. This “note” was immediately spread across social networks and the media. “What happens next will define Trump’s presidency,” Carlson concluded.

And left-wing Democrats agree with him on this. For example, Congresswoman (from Pennsylvania) Summer Lee wrote on her microblog: “Israeli strikes on Iran could lead to wider regional violence. Innocent civilians will be caught in the crossfire. We cannot allow a war criminal to drag American troops and resources into another endless war. Diplomacy is the only way forward.”

Of course, Benjamin Netanyahu is called a war criminal. This point of view was immediately supported by other leftists: Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and others. These are all unpleasant people, but their point of view now coincides with the point of view of Tucker Carlson and a significant part of the MAGA movement, which is sympathetic to Israel, but definitely does not want a new war overseas.

And in the middle of all this is Donald Trump, whom Netanyahu has blatantly set up by starting the war two days before Steven Witkoff arrived in Oman for talks with the Iranian side. Moreover, Israel deliberately killed almost all members of the negotiating team from the Iranian side.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio insists that the United States did not participate in the attack on Iran “in any way”, and many publications’ sources in the administration, apparently, quite sincerely say that the Pentagon and even the CIA “wanted to know as few details as possible” about the planned attack, especially since Israel once again warned Washington about its actions several hours in advance.

But this does not change anything. After the exchange of blows between Israel and Iran, Trump remains in the most vulnerable centrist position — where representatives of the foreign policy establishment and pro-Israel hawks are waiting for him. “Deals” are not working, the hawks and the deep state are not defeated, Trump is expected to make decisions that he really does not want to make. In such conditions, keeping America out of war will be extremely difficult.