David French

He could take care of Hezbollah.

He could take care of Hamas.

He could take care of Iran.

And that was just a massive miscalculation that he didn't have the capacity to launch a war to end all wars because Israel doesn't have that power all by itself.

And America was never going to buy into that to become a partner in Israel and sort of a war partner.

Why would they want to?

And how possible was it to begin with?

Because this is another thing that's floating around out there, Tim, that really I think is under-discussed, is the guy they're throwing in their lot with is also a guy who has had extremely lucrative personal financial relationships in the Gulf.

And what part of the world is getting hurt the hardest?

It's that area of the Gulf where he has extremely lucrative financial relationships.

How much does that play into his calculus?

I don't know.

But we know Trump long enough to know that he's always looking out for number one.

And so...

It's like the perfect storm of everything.

It's the constitutional violations of launching a war without Congress.

It's the corruption problem of Trump getting in the Trump family and enterprises being enriched by Gulf countries, Qatar, the UAE, et cetera.

It's his mercurial nature.

It's his hatred and contempt for his allies.

All of these things came together in this perfect storm, in this moment, in which he was utterly unequipped to be a war leader.