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The number of bad assumptions behind this meme approaches infinity
Come here and explain this or youre getting a commmunity ban. You have 6 hours.
At the time there was widespread reliable reporting that Trump was contemplating going to actual (boots on the ground) war with Iran because of the bump a President usually gets in approval when we go to war.
If Trump had been contemplating (or doing) retaliatory strikes against Iran-supported terrorists, Biden would've been wrong to criticize Trump for thinking about bombing legitimate military targets.
We've unfortunately cultivated both a very strong and mostly unaccountable (to the rest of the world) military and a lot of enmity from Shia Muslims (not that the Sunnis love us or anything).
All that being said, Biden is a serious person who takes the job of President seriously, who takes the deployment of military power seriously, who definitely understands and considers the danger of escalation seriously. He took this action with the active participation of one ally (the UK) and probably in consultation with most of our closer allies. It was done in response to months of active attacks which could've hurt people and has diverted a lot of global trade traffic to go around South Africa.
Trump is not and never was serious about anything to do with the Presidency, he wanted to bomb Iran for his poll numbers, and wanted to leave NATO.
hope that helps.
And in the UK, Rishi Sunak is facing criticism from his own party for going over Parliament's head on this. Just because he's found another head of state as bloodthirsty as he is doesn't magically make it justified.