Trump is escalating his threats against Iran again, but he’s doing it after already showing exactly how far he was willing to go last time. Right, so Donald Trump is escalating the threats against Iran again. The language has hardened, the plans are back in circulation, the warnings are bigger, louder, more absolute and the machinery is being spun up as if this is the first time he’s done it all over again. But it isn’t. All of this is happening after an alleged strike was already prepared, talked up, and then either not authorised or called off at the last minute, depending on source, so is this more of the same now? Whether it is or not, it blows a hole straight through the idea that you can say the same thing again, louder, and pretend nothing happened in between, it’s like an inverse boy who cried wolf moment. Escalation was taken right to th ...