Airlines cancelled flights and allies pulled back after Trump escalated Iran strike talk, and that reaction exposes a reality he can’t retreat from. Right, so Donald Trump has publicly threatened Iran with imminent attack, encouraged unrest, and triggered live military preparations, and the immediate result is that embassies have shut, flights have been cancelled, bases have thinned out, and airspace is being treated as unsafe, because nobody who actually has skin in this believes this is just noise, nor is entirely certain of what is going on between the orange ones ears. The system is already reacting as if retaliation is credible and imminent, and that reaction doesn’t rewind just because a politician decides to sound calmer by that afternoon. The confidence you’re being sold right now, by spokespeople, by pundits, by people insisting this is  ...