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and Forbes should be ashamed of themselves for writing such garbage.

I mean, the arguments made in the article are true, and with any other President, perhaps this would be a reasonable description of the situation. But not Trump. This guy is senile, and before he was senile, he was stupid beyond belief. This is a guy who thinks you can open the Strait by having Germany float some frigates. A person doesn't have to graduate from West Point to know how absurd that is.

Ultimately there are two reasons Trump did this. 1) Bebe was the last guy in his ear before Trump launched this thing. 2) You have to go back to those tweets where he said that Obama would attack Iran in order to boost his approval ratings.

It really is no more complicated than this. Trump thought that, by being "strong", the NATO countries would follow him into this quagmire, and Trump would be celebrated as the triumphant war hero.

And that movie is still playing in his senile mind.