GOP 'anxiety' escalates over White House's 'unserious' Iran moves: analysis

A lack of a clear excuse or explanation from the White House on the Iran war has stirred anxiety within the Republican Party, an analyst has claimed.

Some members of the GOP, now gearing up for the midterms, find themselves taking a stance against the war with Iran, and therefore Donald Trump and his administration. Some Republican representatives previously aired their difficulty in being anti-War and pro-Trump, but for the bulk of the party, it seems looming elections are a cause for concern.

The New Republic podcast host Greg Sargent suggested the lack of clarity given by Trump and his admin on the reason for the war with Iran is causing confusion within the GOP.

He said, "Yeah. In fact, that kind of gets at another reason Republicans, I think, are getting anxious. Trump just isn’t even bothering to try to create what you’d call a cohesive message or a coherent story about what they’re doing. He’s just not bothering. And that’s sort of something you would expect Trump to be doing since there’s a midterm election coming up, but he’s just not.

"Adding to the anxiety among Republicans might be just how fundamentally unserious the White House is being about this in another way.

"We just saw the White House Twitter feed post this absolutely disgusting video which presented footage from the war—bombings and so forth—but packaged it as a video game, complete with dramatic music and the trappings of a video game visually on the screen. It’s just awful."

Further analysis from Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman suggests Trump has plunged the world into a worst-case scenario situation, which will affect the whole world.

Krugman wrote, "But now we know that there is another reason for nations to reduce their dependence on fossil fuels: security. In a dangerous world, it’s infinitely safer to rely on the sun and the wind than to depend on fossil fuels that must be transported long distances, from nations that are untrustworthy, often exploitative and located in regions that frequently devolve into war zones.

"The current situation in the Middle East is essentially the worst-case scenario for world energy supplies. Normally around 20 percent of the world’s oil supply transits through the Strait of Hormuz."