Trump has no way out

How can Iran not win this? 

Can the world avoid a financial crisis?

“The only thing that’s relevant to the market is the Strait of Hormuz and the impact on the price of oil and how that feeds through the supply chain and rattles the economies of the world. So that’s where the focus is. It’s so serious and so dangerous that it just can’t last long, because everybody in the world wants it resolved.” Lloyd Blankfein, former head of Goldman Sachs, quoted in today's Daily Telegraph. 

But of course Iran does not want it resolved and the Iranian government is not going to be toppled. 

Many Israelis by now may want this to end.

Trump cannot meet the various goals he might have set (he hasn't been clear about what they are) and Iran has an extraordinarily large number of missiles to fire at ships.

Michael Wolff thinks Trump chose to attack Iran to do what no other president dared. 

This is why he told the easily disproved lie that a former president told him he wished he had attacked Iran. In his head they are saying this to him. 

He asked the service chiefs if he had the power to 'obliterate' (his favourite word) and was told 'yes, but..' and ignored the but.