Current and former officials close to Trump predict that he is close to a major escalation or that he is “bored” with the war.
This confusion may be just the way Trump likes it.
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“I know it doesn’t sound right for me to say this, but I’d love my legacy to be made as a great peacemaker — because I really believe I’m a peacemaker,” Trump said at a Saudi-backed investment summit in Florida. “It doesn’t seem it right now, but I think I’m a peacemaker.”
But at the same event, Trump said that Iran was “begging to make a deal,” echoing comments he made at a Cabinet meeting earlier in the week. “They are begging to make a deal, not me,” he told reporters at the White House, later adding, “In fact, we have other targets we want to hit before we leave.”
There are several factors at play
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