That you think it's gaslighting shows your failure to see the truth. When you're prejudiced against any particular person or place, you're blinded to that truth, where you only see your own opinions. No one here , let alone myself, doesn't see what's been going on for decades, and how some politicians ruin things. What those haters don't see are the things they actually do right. If you haven't yet noticed by what I've been saying, I've never been nor ever will be a Trump fan, but that doesn't mean I don't see the good things he's done, along with all the other presidents since my birth. I don't measure any of them, as they'll never do everything right, because a politicians position, especially the presidents, is one of power, and with that power comes ego, narcissism and stubborn beliefs, which can in turn hurt others. This war has a definite exit strategy. To get Iran to never have a nuclear weapon, stop killing it's own citizens, and finally, hopefully, to get rid of those terrorist thinking leaders once and for all. A start gives their own citizens more power than they think, but fear has them not coming all together at once to oust those leaders so they have a democracy instead of dictatorship. The permanent opening of the Strait will only help everyone, including Iran, at least as long as oil is used as fuel worldwide. Try to make a reply without an assumption about what others here know or how they think.