I am very sure that Trump's "plans" regarding Iran change day to day, depending on the sewage sloshing around his skull and who he talked to last, but escalation remains a serious possibility.
The United States is deploying a third aircraft carrier strike group to waters in the Middle East close to Iran, a US official has told Al Jazeera, as the war enters its eighth month and both sides weigh escalation and diplomatic engagement.
Who knows what anyone imagines it would achieve, but that was also the case with Afghanistan and Iraq and Libya. Even war's biggest champions are never able to articulate just what the fuck they want to happen.