I know from personal experience how Netanyahu has tried to get every American president to agree to have an open-ended war with Iran.

I had many, many long, hours-long conversations with him and his war cabinet about this, and refusing to go along with a very inchoate desire to do something to Iran with no real end state that could be described sufficiently.

Our mission will only be complete when the extremist regime in Iran is replaced.

We did not believe the mission would be finished immediately after the fighting subsided, but we did plan—indeed carefully—that our campaign would continue and be expressed even in the period following the strikes in Tehran.

“We will be doing it together… 50-50… and we will have the best drones in this part of the world,” he stated, adding that Serbia alone “cannot make drones like Israel.”

The US defines security in a self-serving way & tries to sell that narrative to its own population - clashing with how Russia, China, & others define global security.

America is a declining global power trying to manage an empire. That's the fundamental driver of its foreign policy.

American Middle East policy is the most undemocratic part of American politics today. The average citizen has very little say. Policy is shaped by interest & lobby groups & the ruling elite.

“I thought she had courage, but I was wrong.”

“She is the one who is unacceptable… she doesn’t care if Iran has a nuclear weapon.”