The remarks differ from what Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is said to have told the president in high-level White House meetings.

President Trump said on Monday that Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, believed that any eventual military action ordered against Iran would be “something easily won.”

But that is not what General Caine has told Mr. Trump and other senior advisers in recent high-level White House meetings on Iran, people briefed on internal administration deliberations said.

Instead, General Caine has said that the United States has amassed forces in the Middle East to carry out a small or medium strike, but that there would be a potentially high risk of American casualties and that such an operation would have a negative effect on U.S. weapon stockpiles. General Caine has also underscored that the operations under consideration in Iran would be much more difficult than the successful capture last month of President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela.

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      14 hours ago

      Israel has a veto on everything though, this is them using their epstein blackmail while they have it, and the compromised leaders in there, to start their forever war.

      They don’t want to end the war. Even if the president gets them to end the war, so he doesn’t look like a bitch of Israel, Israel will find pretexts to cross over at will and assassinate leaders and infrastructure. Every time their domestic affairs need a pick me up, every time their leaders are looking at having to admit past mistakes or lies, failures of allowing the ghetto revolt to break through, they can manufacture pretext to go kill their leaders and bomb some military installations, hospitals, whatever, and the US will be forced to endorse whatever they say, as always.