US has turned into a rogue bully.



The assassination of Soleimani, on the orders of President Trump, is proof that Trump is psychologically unstable and dangerous as he flies entirely by the seat of his pants.



Trump sees only the immediate and direct consequences of an action. He’s apparently unable to see the delayed and indirect consequences. And that includes the drone strike on Soleimani.



The US Government’s attitude towards Iran is especially stupid.



The US populace has been made to think Iranians are a threat because of a massive forty-year-long propaganda campaign. They’re no more of a threat than was US's ex-ally Saddam Hussein (remember US leaders were encouraging/helping Saddam to attack Iran with extensive use of chemical weapons by Iraq, and, later, deliberate attacks on civilian targets).



Iran is a threat to no one.



In any event, you can expect the Iranians to react very much the way any government would if a foreign government overtly took out a high government official. It’s almost dishonorable for them not to react. But they know they’re basically a 90-pound weakling confronting a vicious 250-pound drunk. You can’t pretend you’re in any way worthy if you let a bully beat you up at will.



Trump is completely unpredictable, and he seems to see his unpredictability as a virtue when it comes to negotiating. It’s not. Unpredictability is a virtue when you’re playing poker – but poker is a win-lose game. In real life, unpredictability equals unreliability and untrustworthiness. It’s a sign of someone without ethics, without a moral core. It tells people that you’re trying to “play” them, to “game” them.



Whatever his virtues – Trump is not thoughtful, well-educated, or stable. He’s a narcissist, and shows universally bad judgment in choosing the people he surrounds himself with.



Trump is a loose cannon running the country.



Many Americans can’t find Iran on the map. But for most of their lives, they’ve been told that Iranians are the devil incarnate. Anybody that the bureaucrats in the US government designate evil is automatically accepted as a devil by the media, and then by the people at-large. It’s easy to transform humans into a bunch of hooting and panting chimpanzees who want to kill the other tribe across the watering hole.



It’s insane for Trump to go out and provoke a war. And for absolutely no good reason. None. Especially since it’s said Soleimani was in Iraq on a peace mission (Soleimani was to deliver Tehran's reply to Saudi de-escalation letter when assassinated).



Was Soleimani a good guy, or a bad guy? He was a professional soldier who saw himself as a patriot, exactly like Petraeus, McChrystal, or any other of his US counterparts. Not evil, just a uniformed bureaucrat trying to do his job. Which was keeping his country safe from the US, a very aggressive, very powerful, and very perfidious power that has Iran surrounded on all sides.



The fact that Trump tweeted that he was going to attack cultural sites in Iran was pointlessly and stupidly provocative. How would Americans like it if a foreign government threatened to blow up the Liberty Bell, the Washington Monument, and the Empire State Building? It really does amount to a huge breach of international law and a war crime, for what that’s worth. It was really quite shocking, and a stupid threat to make.



Just as bad is how Trump followed up with a threat to confiscate Iraqi bank accounts in the US if they insist US troops leave the country. Anyone with any sense is thinking that they don’t want to either use dollars or have assets in the US. They could be held hostage on a whim.



Americans are not always the good guys. If a visitor from Mars were to examine this planet, they’d have to say the most dangerous entity in the world today is the U.S. government. Most Americans may be affronted to hear that. We’re used to thinking of ourselves as the “good guys.”. But the U.S. government and Deep State have a life of its own.



The US is definitely the aggressor here—although Americans robotically believe US is always the good guys.

Everybody always see themselves as the good guys, including the Nazis—nothing new here.



Don’t forget Trump is surrounded by all these crazy neocons that really like the idea of war, and think you can win a war in today’s context. Anything could happen from out of the blue. I don’t see how this can end well.



The US, increasingly over time, has turned into a rogue bully; it’s no longer either loved or admired. It’s not even respected, just feared – but only the way you might fear a nasty 250-pound drunk. It has this gigantic hammer – the US military; it makes everything look like a nail to them. It’s bankrupting the country, staggering around, picking fights and making enemies everywhere, breaking law to attack/invade illegally (Iraq, Libya, etc.), committing war crimes with millions (children, women, men, young and old) being raped/ killed / injured / traumatized/ enslaved and/or displaced.



U.S. is now a vicious part of the problem which increasingly worsens the conflicts in these countries provoking/escalating violence leading to failed states and killing fields.



US leaders have killed/injured/traumatized/displaced too many people (including many women and children), misappropriated/wasted too many trillions to commit war crimes in these illegal attacks/invasions.



These blood-drenched war criminals (Bush/Cheney/Blair/Sarkozy/Cameron/Obama/Trump, etc and their senior officers/advisors/generals) are the real murderers with blood on their hands and the UN must take actions to charge/jail these war criminals for life.



It is time for US leaders to stop breaking law to attack/invade illegally.

It is time for US leaders to stop breaking/withdrawing JCPOA, Paris Climate Agreement and the like and stop all illegal sanctions.



Iran's door is always open, ready to work with Saudi to resolve differences and bring peace and prosperity to the whole region.