🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷⚡️ — NEW: Senior advisers to President Trump would prefer that Israel strike Iran before the United States takes direct military action, as they believe an initial Israeli attack could provoke Iranian retaliation and help build domestic support among American voters for a subsequent U.S. strike, POLITICO reports.

➡️ Even so, the most likely outcome may be a coordinated U.S.-Israel operation. Those close to the president reportedly view military action as a serious possibility, with one person describing the prevailing mindset as "we're going to bomb them.”

➡️ The scale of any attack remains under debate. Key concerns include the risk of draining U.S. munitions stockpiles, potentially giving China an opportunity to move against Taiwan, and the prospect of American casualties if Washington opts for a more aggressive, regime-change-level assault.