Comment by cucumber3732842

> Israel dragging us further into Iran during the first ~third of the conflict when the US was trying to find a clean place to stop the escalation is a pretty good example of that.

This is like the guy who claims that he wanted to stop beating his wife but his brother just wouldn't let him stop.

Let's be clear: nobody forced the US to attack Iran in the first place. There is a reason no president before Trump did what Trump did: defense and intelligence officials have known for a very long time how such an attack was likely to play out and how disastrous it would be for the region, the US and the global economy.

Trump was warned by senior intelligence and defense officials and he chose to ignore their advice because he's a very stable genius who knows better than anyone else.

Israel has been trying to make the US attack Iran for decades.

"the US" is stretching it hard when it comes to the Iran war. In the US government under Trump, there are a lot of different interests...

- you got Kushner and his ilk who basically wants to flatten Gaza to turn it into a real estate hotspot to make untold amounts of money

- you got the Evangelical nutcases who legitimately believe that this mess is a holy war and will bring back Jesus [1]

- you got your usual old-school falcons, MIC lobbyists etc. that stand to make a lot of money and/or want this war to happen for ideological reasons

- you got a ton of isolationists who want "an end to the US wars that cost taypayer money"

- you gotTrump himself who openly admires strongmen and (wannabe) dictators, and I think it's fair to classify Netanyahu as both.

And that is a loooot of different to incompatible interests to balance against each other.

[1] https://theconversation.com/evangelical-holy-war-why-some-ch...