Rosemary Kelanic, director of the Middle East program at Defense Priorities, a Washington-based foundation that focuses on U.S. military and foreign policy, says she doubts Trump’s threat of ground forces is just a bargaining tactic.
“It seems likely to me that this is a genuine escalation or at least that he’s seriously considering escalating,” Kelanic told New York magazine on Monday.
She said the 10,000 additional U.S. troops being considered for the region “is not enough to invade large areas of Iran, but it’s enough to get into some serious trouble.”
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