Andrew Roth, the Guardian’s global affairs correspondent based in Washington DC, says reporting on the US and Israeli war on Iran gives you “whiplash”.

“We’re so used to going into these kinds of wars and conflicts where there’s a massive plan for what’s going to happen six weeks from now, six months from now,” he tells Michael Safi.

“I think the Iran war is unique in American history, for the fact that so little planning, it seems, was put into specifically the political changes, what the goals are politically for the country.

“You’ll wake up in the morning and you’ll find, like earlier this week, that Donald Trump had suddenly decided that the US was going to cancel an ultimatum to blow up Iranian power plants, because all of a sudden secret talks are taking place.”

Roth analyses the responses to the war from the public in the US and from officials within the Maga movement. Will it be an issue that splits Trump’s supporters?

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