Playbook: “Trump’s private conversations and public statements reveal a president taking a highly unusual twin-track approach to war — pursuing both a rapid exit from a conflict that he knows is hurting his supporters and damaging his party’s prospects at the ballot box, while at the same time mulling a dramatic escalation that would raise the stakes enormously while potentially extending the conflict for weeks to come.”“One of these wildly diverging outcomes will set the course for the midterms in November, and likely the rest of Trump’s presidency. And it’s far from clear which way he’ll go.”