endgame

In the end, the contours of this endgame will be shaped by the course of a perilous and unpredictable confrontation, and an unpredictable US President.

We must also ask what Iran's endgame is now.

You have your western elements in there, your Gunther’s Pistol Palace and a heavily armed endgame that often recalls “No Country for Old Men.”

But if Trumpism got a new lease on life from this war — new talking points, new enemies, new ways to rile up the base — we have to ask what the endgame is.

With Trump, he may now see himself as the arbiter of the endgame in the war he started when he broke international law with the all-out invasion of Ukraine almost exactly three years ago.