[trisham]

Don't worry, he won't declare war over anything.

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Of course not. He's hoping our enemies will declare war on us.

[JasonC]

He is hoping that war is as unnecessary as it is unpopular, because he intends to never do anything unpopular, least of all with his base, who are cringing pacifists. He's wrong about that, but not because it is a diabolical plan. It's just stupid. The garden variety sort of stupid that always results from finger-in-the-wind pols listening to ignorant constituents off in fantasyland.