https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/how-iran-sucker-punched-trump-into-escalation-trap-hellhole/ar-AA20fjBQ
The second article is from the WSJ. Worth it if you can open.
I don't think of the WSJ as anti-Trump in any fashion. So when they criticize Trump my conclusion is that there's some there there.
These two articles explain how Trump is turning a supposedly winning hand- military superiority and and a decent claim to the moral high ground- into folding.
We're spending close to a billion dollars and day and getting little for it. And the world is getting tired of the economic upheaval.
BTW, Trump was TOLD ahead of time by a couple of advisors that this was a likely problem. But he listens to the clowniest clowns in the admin. So here we are.