Wasn't yesterday a Ride?

Does anybody else think that yesterday was really really bizarre?

 In the course of one day, the Mad Führer of Mar-A-Lago went from threatening Iran to claiming that said nation's attack on a U.S. military drone was an accident to calling for an airstrike to calling off that airstrike. It was definitely a bizarre thing to read about when I got home from the paying job last night.

 So why did it happen? Some have suggested that there is friction between National Security Advisor John Bolton's camp and electoral vote winner Donny.  Others have suggested that maybe the Mad Fuhrer really doesn't want this war but is being led around by the military.  There are even reports that Valdimir Putin suggested that this attack would be a bad idea.  So what do we know?

First, national security and diplomacy experts are saying this didn't help electoral vote winner Donny or the country's standing in the world.  Also, this might not be over yet as there are still a few ships heading towards the region to be stationaed near Iran (so he might still get this war yet).

Personally, I'm amongst those who think the Mad Fuhrer of Mar-A-:ago wants a war for several reasons:  One, the mainstream media usually follows along for a while and is less critical when a war goes down (see both wars with Iraq, Afghanistan, etc).  It also is a great motive by which he can quash dissent.  For those reasons alone I think he may still want this.

So why didn't it happen yesterday?  I honestly don't know.  Donny claims a sudden concern over loss of life if a strike happened.  However, given his disregard for human life in his own country whether it be the growing income inequality or locking migrants and asylum seekers in what is safe to call concentration camps at this point this excuse seems hollow.  Maybe it was Putin, maybe it was blowback by his donors.  As I said time will tell on what happens next.

While we don't know what elctoral vote winner Donny is going to do about Iran (hell, in the next 12 hours he could suddenly do the mother of all strikes) on thing is clear: yesterday was a bizarre ride that, if nothing else, shows that maybe there is something to the theory that the Mad Fuhrer of Mar-A-Lago is a malleable useful idiot for whatever forces in power want, whether it be influence, a theocracy, or war. 

Regardless, it's something that's scary to contemplate.