The Soleimani Assassination and Occam's Razor
Many are calling Trump's move taking out General Soleimani "4D Chess". I believe there is another strategy at play.
Trump has backchannels to Iran and made a deal with Rouhani to take out Iran's General who Rouhani was already losing control over. Soleimani was acting as a lone wolf in Iraq. He was there AGAINST ORDERS from President Rouhani. Solemani was becoming too powerful and he was using Iran's army as his own personal mercenary force. Rouhani was slowly losing control over his own military and Trump saw this as an oppertunity to make a deal with the devil.
Both Trump and Iran want US forces to begin wrapping up in Iraq.
Rouhani wants Soleimani dead because he is becoming uncontrolled.
Trump wants Soleimani dead in order to look powerful and to snub Obama for his pardon of the war criminal.
Soleimani's death causes a vote in Iraq for US forces to leave. Now Trump can pull forces without battling in congress.
Rouhani and Trump both get what they want. Rouhani gets to cry crocodile tears for his poor general, and trump has made in roads into a deal with Iran.
There will be some more back and fourth fake posturing from Iran against Trump in order to save face and create plausible deniability, but ultimately Rouhani will come to the table.
Iran will come to the table and agree to inspections and denuclearization in return for sanction relief. The president has become old and weary of this path and he sees Trump as his ally against the Globalists. Now is the time when Iran can come to the table and establish strong economic nationalist trade deals that are free of globalist intervention.
Iran realizes that their war has always been against the Rothschild banks and Rouhani realizes that Trump is their enemy as well, so now is the time to make a deal. The deal must be done in secret, where both sides look like enemies in order to save face to the general public who hate each other's guts.
This will cause the price of oil to plummet below $30 by end of year.