Michelle Cottle

So scale of one to 10, guys, how shocked should Trump be that he is getting the cold shoulder from Europe on a lot of this?

And where do you think the dynamic is headed?

Jamel, you go first.

Strategery at its finest.

David?

Well, it certainly seems like we're running into with this administration, or perhaps it's just this president, that eternal tension between short-term goals and long-term goals.

And he doesn't really seem to have long-term goals on anything.

So...

His approach to this seems to be, well, it's great.

I can blow this up and look how tough we are here.

And this speaks, I think, Jamel's brought this up before.

He's got all these toys to play with and he's got all this military might.

And we can worry about where this leaves us in broader picture terms for later, which, you know...

I mean, what could possibly go wrong?

It's the Middle East, right?

It always turns out well in the long term.

But so what are we learning about his just view of American power?

And also, do we think the White House maybe is learning anything about the gap between how the president views that power and how things actually play out?

I mean, do we think anything is sinking in over there?

Which I hear is not impressing military veterans about this.