There's another side of the story, it's the middle east/east asia dilemma; you can't confront china in east asia AND handle the middle east at the same time, it's just too much, even for the US army. There's probably 2 schools of thought in the war party, one thinking the east asia is the priority while the other thinks middle east is the priority
And I believe trump served the the former first, while accommodating the latter. I know it sounds counter intuitive but think about what he did. He essentially made good bye gifts to israel (jerusalem) and arranged a deal between sauds and israel, a defense partnership giving them more autonomy. Meanwhile he shifted the military toward east asia, trying to leave syria and afghanistan behind. And if you look at what biden does, except for the syrian part, it's mostly the continuity of what trump started, there's no substantial change
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