No more “dovish” opposition to “forever wars” from the unhinged monster child. He’s even prepared to put “boots on the ground“! This war is already deeply unpopular , and if he sends troops in, there will be a popular revolt I expect. As I wrote back in 2016:

Trump has the classic “Mafia mentality”…[which] will be familiar to any New Yorker who has paid attention.  In the Mafia mindset, the only question is who is with you and who is against you.  Those who are with you, who are loyal and pay respect, benefit from largesse and generosity and protection.  Those who are against you, who are disloyal and disrespectful, are to be destroyed, with no constraints on how.  Of course, you can’t destroy all your enemies all the time, so when necessary you do business with them, until the opportunity presents itself to exact revenge.    Because those who are part of the “in group” are beneficiaries of the boss’s largesse, they invariably idolize him…There is no doubt Trump has the Mafia mentality (if one doubts it, see the choice quote here:  “I love to remember my enemies and I love to get my enemies whenever I can, absolutely. … So many people that were enemies of mine were wiped out, and I do not really care about that.” ).  Again, this mentality is dangerous in a mobster with guns, but dangerous at a world-historical level with access to U.S. military might.

As Scott Shapiro joked on social media, since we have a mobster government, we had to “whack” the boss of the other “family” (i.e., the Ayatollah). Of course, the actual Mafia had rules about killing “bosses,” which required “commission” approval, in order to avoid the war of all against all. The rule of international law serve a similar purpose. But Trump, whose ignorance and narcissism render him unfit to make any adult decision, has even less sense than a typical mob boss. We’d be a lot safer if Carlo Gambino were President.