Experts on Trump Silence:-Press the pause button

Iran has bombed US bases and appealed for having shot down a Ukrainian airliner. Nevertheless, experts believe that the United States and President Donald Trump are currently happy to sit still in the boat.

When Iran threatened to respond to US liquidation of General Qaseem Suleimani, Donald Trump warned that he had designated 52 Iranian goals he was ready to take on as revenge.

Instead, the US response to Iran's Revenge against the US bases al-Asad West in Iraq and in Erbil north of the country has only been sanctions.

And unlike its Western Allies in Canada and the UK, Trump does not yet seem to have taken a position on the Credible Iranian shooting of a Ukrainian airliner only hours later.

The president is known for his direct Twitter messages in capital letters, but so far he has remained completely stationary after the news that the plane is probably shot down came Thursday night.

"Some may have made a mistake on the other hand," Trump told reporters after a press conference on Thursday.

– Some say it was a mechanical failure. Personally, I don't even think it's a question, he continued cryptic.

– Press the pause button

US and defense expert Svein Melby told VG that the Trump camp probably wants to put the conflict on hold after several days of high levels of tension and great War danger.

Therefore, Americans are reluctant to respond militarily to Wednesday's attacks, as well as to go Iran after the alleged fallout of a Ukrainian aircraft.

– It seems that the Americans right now want to tone things down a little after some dreadful hectic days. Trump puts the pause button on a show, says Melby.

– But, as it is with such pause buttons: It is easy to get to it again. And if you do, you're fast going again, he adds.

Trump with regards to Iran after the attack of the night: – Wishing you a great future

– The immediate situation, as seen from the United States, is to calm down. They're probably relieved that American troops weren't killed. Had it happened, it would have been harder to get away from a military response, he said.

"Strictly speaking, it is essentially Iran's next step waiting for now: Do they do something more, what do they do, and where does it happen?

– Wants to step down

CNN has interviewed a number of diplomats and high-ranking sources close to the US president, describing the hours of the White House after the Iranian assault on Wednesday.

The first thing they would get confirmed was whether US citizens were killed. A senator who has spoken to Trump told CNN that the president had pointed out several military targets in Iran for a possible revenge attack in case a single American lost his life.

Instead, those who sat in the situation Room should have been surprised at how limited the Iranian attack was, and how few missiles they used in spite of the country's vast arsenal of thousands of missiles.

Republican elected officials have told that the president was in "very good spirits" and that he looked at the limited Iranian revenge as an opportunity to negotiate with them.

"The United States has essentially three goals: Iran must reverse its nuclear program more powerful than they committed to the nuclear agreement," Iran must reverse its missile and missile program, and preferably withdraw from important countries in the region such as Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Yemen.

"Many people want the two countries to go into a diplomatic process to try to solve this, but when the parties have such conflicting interests it is almost impossible," says Jakobsen.

Melby er enig og påpeker at faren for nye tilspissede situasjoner vedvarer så lenge den underliggende konflikten er fastlåst.

Han tror ikke på nye amerikanske militæraksjoner så lenge Iran ikke foretar seg noe, men sier landet har satt seg selv i en vanskelig skvis.

– Spørsmålet er hva som skjer videre med det kjernefysiske programmet til Iran. Der har USA selv skapt seg en situasjon der man fort ender med å måtte ty til militærmakt på et eller annet tidspunkt hvis man ikke finner en diplomatisk løsning, sier Melby.

– På den andre siden har du Iran som kan være en uberegnelig og ikke minst kynisk aktør.

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