The U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran that began over the weekend is shaping up to be a serious regional war. Iran has not only fired back at U.S. troops but has fired at countries that host them. The Pentagon has acknowledged four American deaths and 18 serious injuries, with President Donald Trump expecting more. On Monday morning, three U.S. fighter jets were shot down in an "apparent friendly fire incident" over Kuwait, and natural gas prices shot up by 50 percent in Europe after Iranian air raids shut down Qatari and Saudi energy facilities.
While the war has been carried out by air so far, Trump has pointedly refused to rule out a ground invasion of Iran. "I don't have the yips with respect to boots on the ground—like every president says, 'There will be no boots on the ground.' I don't say it," Trump told the New York Post. "I say 'probably don't need them,' [or] 'if they were necessary.'"
