The last few hours have been a real heart attack in the geopolitical sphere. The president of the United States, Donald Trump threatened Iran this Tuesday with just before the deadline for his ultimatum expired.
However, in the early hours of Tuesday to Wednesday, the North American president announced that for two weeks if the Islamic Republic reopened the Strait of Hormuz.
A few hours later, Iran confirmed that it would once again leave oil tankers in that place where 20% of the world’s oil circulates. However, on this Wednesday afternoon, Iran has returned to the Strait of Hormuz after Israel’s attacks on Lebanon that have caused dozens of deaths.
In the face of this uncertain situation and this unstable truce, It is worth wondering if Trump will soon return to the fray and will carry out new threats against Iran as forceful as this Tuesday’s.
Could American soldiers disobey Trump?
Regarding this type of aggressive messages from the American president, Ben Rhodes, former Deputy National Security Advisor under President Barack Obamahas assured that Trump’s way of making decisions entails great risk.
In an interview at BBCBen Rhodes has stressed that the very particular way of doing things of the American president “looks more and more like a man making decisions alone in a room.”
Regarding Trump’s recent threat to cause “the death of an entire civilization” (which would be a war crime), Obama’s former advisor has mentioned that one of the questions is whether members of the US military would comply with such orders. “We will see if the US military is willing to say ‘no’ to Trump”Rhodes said.
