Originally Posted by
dead_pan
Not a sympathiser by any stretch, just aware of the likely cost in blood & treasure to definitively achieve this aim - also whether its our (i.e. the UK's) problem to fix? After all the US has been banging on about how the conflict in Ukraine was Europe's problem (rightly so IMO) - perhaps this is one for Israel and the Middle East, and their respective backers, to figure out?
I agree. Trump has an unwarranted expectation that europe will have a Eureka moment that they have some moral obligation to solve a regional war with Iran. One that should be handled by the regional powers, not by those far away. Soon, he and his acolytes will start musing that europe was late to the war. It'll morph into assumed fact that europe was somehow morally compelled to be there and will moan about being late by months to years and that their help wasn't really needed.