Decades ago, I heard a story about Henry Kaiser. He was in a meeting with, iirc, government honchos. They asked Henry if he could make a particular thing. Henry turned to one of his staff and asked them to explain what the thing was, to him. After listening to the explanation, Henry told the government honchos, yes, he could make it.

What was the particular thing? Enquiring minds want to know! :)

Remember Occam's razor - roughly - the simplest answer is usually the best. If you could find a cite for that meeting with Kaiser that would help, industrialist's do have meetings. I think you are reading too much into this. Trump was listening to Israel, MBS, and out hard liners.even now I hear MBS wants boots on the ground for regime change. He was warned, but didn't think this would happen.

This is a bad place to be. We have someone like Trump deciding whether to put boots on the ground in Iran and a stalemate - Iran can hold out for a long time - longer than the end of Trump's Presidency. So we have this rich, griftng bub, profiting off the Presidency, his minions ignore it, want to believe in 4D chess. Dope says lets wait for the plan to play out while insisting there's a plan. My unit, the 82d, is there along with marines. Trump needs to come up with something he can claim is better than Obama, defuse this thing, bring the oil prices back down and get out of there. MBS and Israel want regime change. Me no like this.