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I'd argue that that current level of escalation is far beyond Soleimani assassination. We just narrowly avoided US doing a strike directly in Iran, and that might still happen if things keep going the way they are. Libs won't admit to running an empire, but there's no correlation between what libs say and what libs do. I think the fact that people see libs as being more tame is precisely why they're able to get away with more.
I really can't see the "Democrats are actually worse" argument when the two most relevant wars -- Iraq and Afghanistan -- were both started by Republicans, and when Republicans committed (not almost committed, not came close to committing) an act of war against Iran just a few years ago.
As I said, I don't think there's any major difference between the two parties. Importantly, all the actual decisions are made by the permanent bureaucracy. The party that's in charge has little influence over these decisions in the grand scheme of things.