These are my thoughts on recent events. Feel free to correct me or add to it.
Trump hasn't further escalated the war. The satellite images of the 6 nuclear bunker buster missiles strikes look like the nuclear warheads had not been armed--so just penetration holes into the mountain. Trump then said it was mission accomplished to Israel. Iran struck US airbase sites in Qatar and Iraq with not too many missiles, and notified Trump in back channels ahead of time, so there were no casualties on the evacuated bases. This was allowed to happen to let Iran save some face. Trump did not retaliate and called a cease-fire.
Israel violated the cease-fire within four hours.
BTW, when you hear the legacy media say "nuclear facilities", they are NOT referring to weapons grade nuclear enrichment facilities. Iran had none of those. The world knows it since Iran has let the inspectors in all those sites. Iran also had submitted to every de-escalation demand Israel had made. Israel kept making one more restrictive demand after another, trying to start something, but Iran agreed and agreed to each worse demand, all the way up to the day of Israel's and US's surprise attack upon them--two days before another de-escalation meeting was scheduled. Iran had already been demanded down to a low 3.5% enrichment level, which is used for things like medial and nuclear power plant isotopes. THOSE were the facilities that were hit and which the legacy media is referring to--but they want people to assume they were nuclear weapon-grade weapons sites, since most all media in the USA is owned or run by Israel.
Israel is not happy with Trump's cease-fire and non-retaliation. It is unacceptable to them. They can be expected to work tirelessly to find some way to get the US to defeat Iran, or until there is a regime change (aka., they want Iran broken up into a number of small states so it can no longer help Israels neighbors, whom they want to steal land from for their dream of a Greater Israel.) Israel's army has proven only capable of killing women and children. They get their ass handed to them everywhere else. -- So they will be working to get the US to do their dirty work, either by carrot or stick. The stick will be a Mossad false-flag killing Americans in some fashion, or perhaps even assassinating Trump himself, who stupidly has said publically, "If I get assassinated, attack Iran." So Israel can always do that.
This whole thing stinks of Israel having dirt on Trump. They have him having sex with some adolescent or something, and they are holding it over him. So Trump is doing just barely enough to keep them from releasing the blackmail, but not, yet, an inch more.
