Make America Great Again celebrity Charlie Kirk, attempting to balance support for the administration and appeal to online isolationists, maintains that the “regime change war machine in D.C.” is pushing President Donald Trump into “an all-out blitz on Iran.” If the president acts, shadowy agents of the military-industrial complex will surely be blamed. But the Wall Street Journal piece that Kirk links to merely reports that the president’s aides, at his request, had presented a plan to hit military and nuclear targets should the United States intervene. 

The question is, what does “regime change war” mean in simple language? Does it mean, as “non-interventionists” suggest, invading Iran and imposing American democracy on its people? Because, if so, there’s virtually no pushing for it. And I only add “virtually” in case I somehow missed a person of consequence, though it is highly unlikely. Trump, from all indications, is using the threat of the U.S. joining the war to push Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei into surrender. Though taking out Iran’s nuclear program would end the war quicker.