Trump is a gambler. He built much of his fortune on casinos, and businesses that operate like casinos.

But the principle operation in poker is to fold. If you have any sense at all. You do bluff, and you do get a flush from time to time, but usually, you fold.

It's not 'chickening out' it's non-participation.

He may escalate, you drive up the ante. But at the end of the day, you have to fold.

Nuclear war is not an option. It is not an option. That's not gambling, that's Russian Roulette. Trump is about survival, not suicide.

One has always seen something truly American and decent in Trump. He knows better. You can only do regular war, or fold.

God bless the troops. May our Western World continue to be blessed, and not lose its damn mind.

If someone strikes your cheek, you offer them the other cheek; if they take your cloak, you offer them your tunic. This is not an invitation to pacifism. It means no matter what, you stand your ground.

And these warring insane misogynists who murder thousands of their own people in the streets ... it is not acceptable. Funding uneducated adult children to lob bombs for no reason ... this must end. Finally. With an apology for our nation's past actions. But enough is enough.

As Sri Krishna taught us thousands of years ago. Arjuna, standing in the center of the battlefield of Kurukshetra, utterly destroyed because he must destroy his own kinsmen ... never was there a time when you didn't exist. Never will there be a time when you don't exist. But for the sake of dharma/duty—you are kshatriya, a warrior—so you must fight.