Trump made a grave miscalculation by embracing Binyamin Netanyahu's obsession.

In a post on social media, Donald Trump tried to dissociate himself from record-high oil and gas prices after an Israeli attack on the Pars Sul Gas Field in Iran.

“In a post on social media, Donald Trump tried to dissociate himself from record-high oil and gas prices after an Israeli attack on the Pars Sul Gas Field in Iran”

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The attack on the field, responsible for a large part of the gas supply to the Iranian domestic market, was a known red line and triggered a predictable volley of retaliations from the Iranian regime against energy facilities in Gulf countries.

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Gas rose 25%, and the price of a barrel of oil hit US$115 on the international market.

"Israel, out of anger with what happened in the Middle East, violently attacked a major facility known as the Pars Sul Gas Field in Iran. A relatively small section of the complex was hit. The United States was not aware of this specific attack," Trump wrote.

In other words: "Sorry, folks, it wasn't my idea to attack a strategic target for Iran at a time when that would result in even higher oil prices, already pressured by Iran's blockade in the Strait of Hormuz."

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According to the Wall Street Journal, the American government did know, indeed, that Israel was going to attack Pars Sul and gave the green light, despite Trump's public denials.

“In a post on social media, Donald Trump tried to dissociate himself from record-high oil and gas prices after an Israeli attack on the Pars Sul Gas Field in Iran”

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But that matters less in the current scenario than a maxim eternally remembered by former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell.

"You break it, you own it." Powell said the phrase to then-President George W. Bush regarding the invasion of Iraq and the overthrow of dictator Saddam Hussein.

By plunging into a regime-change operation in Iraq, the United States became responsible for what would happen in the country — chaos, civil war, more than 4,500 American soldiers, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis killed, and the birth of the Islamic State.

By deciding to join Israel in a war to topple the Islamic regime in Iran, Trump became responsible for the unintended consequences of that intervention.

And Israel's attack on Pars Sul, inaugurating an even more damaging phase of the war, shows why several other American presidents resisted pressure from Binyamin Netanyahu to embark on a war against the Persian country.

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Israel's goals are completely different from the U.S.'s goals.

Netanyahu wants to annihilate the regime that has been in power in Iran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

It doesn't matter that this would entail the complete destruction of the country and hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths.

For Netanyahu, turning Iran into Gaza is a reasonable price to pay to rid himself of the threat posed by the ayatollahs.

And, moreover, record oil prices destabilizing the world economy and the impact of inflation on the Republicans' performance in the U.S. midterm elections are undesirable but tolerable collateral damage.

As for Trump's objectives for the Iran war, who knows what they are?

"Israel will not carry out any more attacks related to this Pars Sul Field, extremely important and valuable," Trump stated in his post.

Will it?

It remains to be arranged with the Israelis.

Other American presidents have proven far wiser in not engaging in a military adventure with Netanyahu, an uncontrollable ally who knowingly places his aims above any consideration.

Donald Trump, this war is yours, and the global economic crisis has already fallen into your lap.