The American President has chosen war with Iran, when a quick, spectacular strike was likely all that Donald wanted

To say that Trump was duped into Netanyahu’s decades-long dream of the destruction of Iran is likely inaccurate or at least a stretch. After all, the American President blew apart a nuclear deal, applied a “Maximum pressure” campaign of sanctions, and dropped “Bunker buster” bombs on Iran in June, 2025. However, Trump clearly set the stage for Netanyahu to raise the curtain on the current show. Trump assembled the ships, planes, tankers, bombs, and personnel for combat. Though in Donald’s mind, this was possibly a display and an act of intimidation to get the regime to sign a deal, rather than a committed use of his assembled force. Similar to the Caribbean scenario, where the Venezuelan raid engaged only a special fraction of Trump’s total military deployment to make an arrest, albeit an elaborate one. 

Although the U.S. military was fully prepared for substantial involvement in Iran, the Trump administration appeared not to be, as it struggled to define the goal or answer the fundamental question, “Why is America attacking........

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