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When it comes to foreign policy and starting wars, young people including journalists here don't understand the effect of the Vietnam War on Trump's transactional philosophy. Unlike the Kerry crowd, Dems who jumped at the chance to be in it, Trump saw it was a mistake and dodged the draft.

He isn't a Biden idiot who proclaimed he was a Zionist and wasn't even Jewish and never personally experienced antisemitism---the basis of Zionism.

Trump will go after Iran if he can win. Winning means getting something out of it for him and his laissez-faire capitalist backers. Now that civilians are the enemy in warfare and it is okay to bomb apartment buildings, hospitals etc., war will be a question of whether the bully in Trump sees an overwhelmingly weak enemy. The Iranians would be foolish to enable an escalation in the Mideast war by attacking Israel. If they negotiate the door to US acceptance might be open to them. I don't think Trump will surrender policy making to his underlings like senile Biden did.

The wild card is Trump's age. The years 78 to 82 often produce medical issues in the elderly.

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