The Washington Free Beacon reports that US forces have been instructed to respond to Iranian agression with force, as part of a new strategy.
The decision reportedly comes after top officials in the Trump administration assessed that Iran is deliberately probing American weaknesses and reactions on the Syrian battlefield, according to senior Trump administration officials who spoke to the Beacon.
“That was very clearly a process of the Iranians and Hezbollah and [the] Syrian regime probing and testing our limits, and testing how much we were willing to do,” one senior Trump administration official said. “In every case, it was a matter of them testing and probing, and us responding by defending ourselves.”
The clashes resulted from forces, including Iranian-backed Hezbollah, “violating a de-confliction measure that had been worked out with the Russians,” the official said. “The forces violated the measure.”
Whether the hegemon is more or less neoFascist than neoliberal, the same neocon Zionist agenda to Cut the Head of the Snake prevails in the Swamp.