Trump himself has been the author of most of the confusion. In an eight-minute video, which was released in the predawn hours of Saturday morning, soon after the strikes began, the President vaguely warned of “imminent threats,” while offering a litany of decades-old complaints about Iran’s long and deadly campaign of terror against the U.S. and its allies. His call for regime change was explicit, though the level of American assistance to achieve that was notably ambiguous: he told Iranians that “the hour of your freedom is at hand” and “now you have a President who is giving you what you want,” and he called on them to help topple “this very wicked, radical dictatorship.”journey-inline-newsletterinline-newsletter