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Of course Iran claimed it was in their airspace. Shooting down a drone in international airspace is an act of war. When Iran decides to openly declare war with the US, they give the US carte blanche to deploy full conventional measures in response. US, for example, could sink every ship in the Iranian navy in 24 hours.

The point is that Iran at least took responsibility for the attack this time, versus the tanker attacks in the Strait.

And Trump claimed it was someone acting fast and loose because he doesn’t want to fight a war in the Middle East. Now that the US is the world’s biggest oil producer, we have a lot less incentive to be involved.

Trump ran on a platform of getting out of the Middle East. He would love nothing more. Iran shooting down drones and mining the Strait certainly makes that difficult.

There are powerful interests in the US that want a war with Iran. The President isn’t one of them, as we have clearly seen now with the air strikes having been called off.