A quick response:1. You keep misunderstanding the phrase “the usual suspects.” It does not, as you falsely claim, imply criminal intent, it's just a normal, often used phrase: see, for example, the Cambridge Dictionary definition says it as “the people or things you would expect to be present somewhere or doing a particular thing.”2. Then you claim, ludicrously, that “there is no evidence that Trump intends to 'flounce' out of the war, leaving others to clean up his mess.“ But that’s exactly what he’s doing, saying it’s now up to the European countries to free the Strait of Hormuz. Let me remind you, before his foolish war the Strait was free. Remember Colin Powell's quoting of the Pottery Barn rule: “If you broke it, you fix it.”3. Finally, we get, yet again, the confusion between what Iran (and Hamas, etc., etc.) says, which is it wants to destroy Israel and what it’s capable of doing – whilst Israel, having destroyed Gaza, is now doing the same thing in Lebanon. How easy it is for you to spout this nonsense while you’re “sitting in the comfort of Putney.”
Richard Carter ● 2d