Seriousness here is a pretense (at best):
...from the very beginning of this war, we got a sense that there wasn’t a great deal of serious thought put into it by the president of the United States about how it might end, what our objectives were, what needed to be done to protect Americans who are in the Middle East, what might happen to oil in the Strait of Hormuz.
-- E.J. Dionne, New York Times
A Top U.S. Counterterrorism Official Resigns, Citing the Iran War
Trump's 45 minute phone call exposed EVERYTHING
How much of all of this is simply about the pure, unadulterated aggregation of personal power...primarily for the purpose of accumulating unprecedented wealth (not to mention avoiding jail)?