And then the Iranians got real real mad, and then the Iranians fired ballistic missiles at a US base in Iraq and kinda missed on purpose but not really, and The Troops stationed there were unscathed but got brain damage from being so close to the blast, and then it turned out the US and Iran were communicating through a Swiss back channel to arrange a "proportionate" counter-response to each other, and then Trump tweeted that everything was fine, and the libs got mad he didn't immediately invade Iran over what amounted to Havana Syndrome for The Troops and then everything got buried over COVID?
That was pretty fucked up when you think about it
EDIT: Oh YEAH -- AND THEN the Iranians got real paranoid and on high alert and ended up shooting down one of their own airliners on accident the same day, in a sick sort of mirroring of the USS Vincennes incident
I also remember before then how some oil tankers blew up and the US tried so hard to insinuate that Iran was responsible.
fuck me i can't remember which pod it was someone just linked it here, but some analyst guy is on and fully believed Iran/Hezbollah were behind the things the US accuses them of, and said such actions are part of why the US lacks the confidence to actually go in on Iran.