Subject: Re: I didn't say what I said before.
An analyst from Brookings was on the Beeb tonight. She said the constantly shifting justifications for this war tell her there is no plan. No plan for now. No plan for later.

The FT counts four supposed justifications within 72 hours.

Since launching his war from Mar-a-Lago on Saturday, Trump’s stated aims have lurched from the overthrow of a “bloodthirsty” regime to forcing new talks with the same government — and everything in between.

On Sunday, in a six-minute video from his Florida estate, Trump framed the conflict as an epic cultural battle, accusing Iran of having “waged war against civilisation itself”.