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Nothing wrong have happened even if the war in Iran hadn't started. It's not like simply paying attention to things in the news makes anything happen.
It's also insulting to dead Iranian children to say this is simply a distraction. No, this is the mechanisms of American empire operating how it always has. This isn't some particular case or bad actors, a war with Iran has been cooking since 1979, and the exact preconditions for this war were in fact established by Joe Biden and his refusal to cease weapon shipments to the Zionist Entity. Every single president since Carter has taken an entirely hostile attitude towards Iran and a far more forgiving attitude towards Israel with the intention of engineering these exact circumstances.
This is the machinery and it's how it works.
it's a distraction from ICE, and the ICE surge was the distraction from the files.
much like democrats would have attacked iran but not in the specific stupid way that trump has, i think it's reasonable to conjecture that trump has been partly motivated by the news cycle and would have done different specifics if he wasn't constantly eating shit in other domains.