Trump appears to have thought that this was going to be a fairly simple process, and he believed Netanyahu when he was told that this would be a fun and easy adventure. Let's bomb Iran together old buddy. This has very obviously not turned out like Don assumed it would, and he's very likely looking for an off-ramp at this point. Financial havoc? Inflation? A declining stock market? More instability?

This sums up the current nightmare Don is facing.

Regime change was the plan, but Trump finds it easier to change plans than regimes. What began as a long-haul commitment to roll back decades of Islamic revolution has become a “short-term excursion” to neutralise Iran’s military capabilities.

Trump has not quite declared “mission accomplished”. He says he has won, but also that he has more winning to do. This is the familiar stage of rhetorical climbdown, indicating dawning awareness that a problem is more complicated than the president initially thought. Complexity resists his whim. It bores him.

Iran turns out to be unlike Venezuela, except in a superficial analysis as energy-exporting countries with a history of hostile relations with Washington. The model of regime decapitation and coercion that saw Nicolás Maduro kidnapped from Caracas and replaced with his compliant vice-president earlier this year whetted Trump’s appetite for an Iranian sequel. But the Islamic Republic has reserves of ideological and institutional resilience. It can also spook international markets by menacing trade in the Gulf.

The White House seems not to have anticipated the predictable economic repercussions of war in the Middle East – soaring oil prices, falling stock markets, disrupted supply chains feeding inflation and choking growth. Flashing red lights on the financial dashboard were surely the prompt for Trump’s pledge to bring his military adventure to a swift conclusion. A tacit deal has come into view. Forget freedom. Iranians can still be repressed as long as shipping through the strait of Hormuz is unmolested.

Trump’s ego-trip war has collided with economic reality but he can’t undo the damage | Rafael Behr | The Guardian https://share.google/0lpYaL1V1JBDpgMf7

Not sure, but at least we FINALLY forgot about Burisma Bidens war with Russia through Ukraine.

Although I fear we may be reminded of it once Russia arms Iran like the "liberal" west did with Ukraine. What comes around and all that..

What you are suggesting is the last person

who walked into his office suggested we start Ww3

.....and he did !

The US doesn't lose interest in wars.

Since dropping the bomb.

It just loses wars.

Silly country.

Period.

The real blame for this war lies with someone very close to him, Jared Kushner.

Jared Kushner has family, business & political ties to Israel and is a close friend of Bibi as is his father.

Trump is highly suggestible, probably due to the vacuous space in his head where most people have a brain & intelligence. Bibi through Jared persuaded Trump to go to war with Iran which is now proved a disaster & Trump knows it and can't find an off-ramp.

There is a reason that Congress has to declare certain things like Tariffs & Wars, it's to stop disasters like this happening. There is the crux of the problem, Trump doesn't recognise Congress holds any authority over him at all. Trump sees himself as the wielder of sole authority and until that changes the American Empire will continue its downward spiral.