On Saturday night, the US joined the Israeli war effort against Iran with a series of strikes targeting the country’s nuclear facilities, which President Donald Trump described as “completely and totally obliterated.” Today, Iran retaliated with a missile attack on a US military base in Qatar.
Experts say that the actual degree of success of the initial US attack is unclear — and that’s just one of the many, many questions to be answered in the aftermath. Vox’s Zack Beauchamp, Joshua Keating, and Andrew Prokop tackled that question and six others here, and Zack charted three pathways for how Trump’s decision to enter the war could go badly wrong.
As Joshua wrote immediately after the news broke, this one is Trump’s war — started and owned by him.
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