Call it confirmation bias, if you want. But Joe Kent was in the room where the deliberations were going on. He says the negotiations are fake. What he has not put together is my take that this is about enriching the oil companies, as much as serving Israel.

There's a huge gap between what he wanted and how it's going. Yes, he wants to enrich the oil companies. Trump's ultimate model is Putin's Russia - a petro state under the rule of an absolute dictator who's allied with the oligarchy. He thought he could grab Iran's oil the same way he grabbed Venezuela's oil. It hasn't worked, has it? So now he's caught between that fantasy and the reality that his base is rebelling over gasoline prices and inflation. What's he going to do? He doesn't know yet. But every day that goes by makes the fantasy further out of reach and the reality worse. There will be no ground invasion because he knows it will be a disaster, and the U.S. military is not prepared for it. They can't even defend the Gulf States from Iranian missiles.

As for serving Israel, no, not really. Trump doesn't serve anyone but himself. He likes Israel because Beeb tells him that they're friends, and the Evangelicals in the MAGA base are pro Israel. But he'll throw Israel under the bus without a second thought when it no longer suits him. There's an election in Israel in three months that the Beeb is likely to lose. After that Trump will no longer remember how to find Israel on a map.