What if he isn't a foreign policy buffoon?

Really hard not to see this:

The Iran Cables: Secret Documents Show How Tehran Wields Power in Iraq by Tim Arango, James Risen, Farnaz Fassihi, Ronen Bergman and Murtaza Hussain

and this:

Iran protests: At least 12 killed at unrest over petrol price rise

and this:

Female protester pulls down a Down with USA poster... #Iranprotets pic.twitter.com/XawrXEQIMs

— Rana Rahimpour (@ranarahimpour) November 18, 2019

as anything other than an endorsement of Trump's Iran policies and an overthrow of the received wisdom of the foreign policy cabal of experts.

On the first headline, clearly, all the period of time when the Obama Administration was figuring out how to give Iran several billions in order to get a supposed nuclear treaty, the Iranian regime was playing Obama for a fool. Controlling Iraq, running circles around the American initiatives there, interfering in Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen.

Trump's reliance on sanctions instead of military forces seems to be driving internal divisions and increasing pressure towards reform.

The third video seems to indicate that the Iranian in the street perhaps has less of a beef with the USA than with their own government.

Enemy state on the ropes, average Iranian demonstrating pro-American behavior, massive leak of enemy influence campaign.

Hmmm. Seems like a lot of good news. Of course, there is a lot of violence and disruption still to come but we seem to be starting from a far better place than we were five years ago.