He wants to open Iran and North Korea.
Admiral Trumpy's nuclear gunboats?
Imagine the economy those countries could have if they would just play nice.
See: Iraq.
The US military is fairly effective at grinding a country into paste. Typically, that isn't great for the economy. And as far as humanitarian considerations go, not that you would give those any thought in your haste to get at the wealth of these countries, any such war would certainly kill far more than either of their governments do.
Tell me, what would it look like for these countries to "play nice"?
And the people in Iran at least seem to hunger for it.
It's a mistake to assume that just because they hate their government that they would welcome our intervention. Our record in Iran is abominable, and I doubt they would welcome anything that places them back under our thumbs.
Trump is a business man, not a Statesmen. The Statesmen have had us facing off with North Korea since the 50s. There's 30,000 U.S. military there all the time to make sure we can kick North Koreas butt at a moments notice.
That's what the Statesmen have brought us. The Business man sees a big liability that keeps getting worse. The more stuff Kim gets the more stuff Donald has to buy to defend against the stuff. He wants to pull the plug badly. But he needs China and Russia to sit out.
Will he pull it off?
Stay Tuned.
For instance, no statesman would risk trading cities in a nuclear Holocaust to win a tweet war.
The reasons statesmen have been unable to break this deadlock is that there are no good ways out. That's not an argument to do something crazy in response.