people are very surprised and many people are extremely happy. joining me now, christopher diggy, world news editor with the daily beast, and msnbc contributor, christopher, your argument is this may be less to show strength and more the president seeing an offramp in iran s denial but now that the u.s. has used the toughest sanctions available and is deploying more troops to the middle east, what else is left, besides a military option? i think trump will avoid military action if at all possible and even if impossible, he doesn t want to go to war and while he says it is perfectly easy for him to hit 15 different sites in iran, yes, easy for him. it wouldn t be easy for saudi arabia, the gulf states, which would bear the brunt of any kind of iranian retaliation and we ve already seen that they are woefully undefended. we are sending a few hun
and confuse and alienate his allies and diminish america. he will seed that power to china and russia, two authoritiarian states that will forge a very different set of rules for the 21st century. some will cheer the decline of america but i think we will miss it when it s gone. msnbc foreign affairs cribber christopher diggy with join us next with the world s reaction to donald trump at the g20 and the investigation of russian interference in our election. comfortable you are in it.
some will cheer the decline of america but i think we will miss it when it s gone. msnbc foreign affairs cribber christopher diggy with join us next with the world s reaction to donald trump at the g20 and the investigation of russian interference in our election.