As I expected last week, on Saturday evening the United States bombed Iran’s most fortified enrichment site at Fordow along with the Natanz and Isfahan nuclear facilities, officially becoming a co-combatant in Israel’s war against the Islamic Republic. President Donald Trump framed the strikes as a one-and-done affair – the kind of spectacular, in-and-out, uncomplicated TikTok-friendly war his base could get behind. Not the beginning of another large-scale, boots-on-the-ground, drawn-out Ken Burns-style conflict most Americans and many in Trump’s own camp would’ve opposed.
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