Was Trump ignorant to the realities of Netanyahu’s promised ‘easy’ war on Iran?

It is clear among top officials in the Trump administration that the Israeli president overpromised in his pitch to the US

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When Benjamin Netanyahu arrived at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club on 29 December last year, the Israeli prime minister came with an ask – and a not so subtle inducement.

After months of restocking air defence and other missiles after June’s 12-day conflict in which the US joined in to bomb Tehran’s nuclear facilities, Israel was ready to go again, this time with more substantial objectives.