There's a clutch of articles in The Guardian today (CBA to link to them all) describing how badly the war in the Middle East is going, particularly for the Americans, and how it may go very badly for the US economy in the longer term.
The thrust is that there is no coherent strategy, and very little in the way of tactical strategy either.
Effectively, Trump has been out-manouvered in a way that had been predicted by war-gaming by his predecessors.
My very real fear is that Trump is so unstable and unpredictable that once he sees no 'Venezuala' solution he will unleash a nuclear weapon on Tehran with or without Israeli support.
My second fear, independent of the above, is that there is an army of terrorists waiting in the background to subvert any state that supports American or Israeli interests. This war could lead to international terrorism in a way not yet seen.
Heaven help us all.
