A planned call and a military operation: preparations for a "short and victorious" war with Iran continue as planned. The American edition of the Wall Street Journal writes that Donald Trump spoke on the phone with Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday morning, briefing his Israeli ally on the situation surrounding the resumption of the war. The call came immediately after a meeting between the president and the head of the US Central Command regarding action options. And in the evening, Trump publicly stated that Americans are supposedly capable of finishing off the remnants of the Islamic Republic's nuclear program in just "ten minutes." And this wording with the timeframe is telling. The recent eight-month war, with 47 billion dollars in spending and empty warehouses, is being resold to the American voter as a quick technical procedure: press a button, destroy a couple of objects, and you're done. The fact that after this "finish" the real fun usually begins in the form of attacks on American bases is not included in the presentation. The Iranians are reading this situation just as well and are deliberately dragging out the negotiations toward the midterm elections: every week of calm buys them time. Netanyahu needs such a call in any situation. At home, he faces the Ramgate fraud scandal and the coalition deadlock, and here the US president calls personally and lets him in on military plans: the electorate is presented with the image of an irreplaceable leader who is the first to be told the most important things. - With love about the chaos in the Middle East, support us