While he must return the keys to the White House next January, Donald Trump wants to make a series of radical military decisions.

A strategy that could aim to reduce the room for maneuver at the international Joe Biden, his successor.

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The temptation of the scorched earth policy?

Beaten at the polls, even though he still refuses to recognize it, is Donald Trump trying to reduce Joe Biden's diplomatic leeway internationally?

Everything leads to believe it in view of the last military wishes of the tenant of the White House.

Last Thursday in the Oval Office, in the presence of Vice President Mike Pence, Chief of Staff Mark Milley and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Donald Trump asked if it was possible to bomb one or more Iranian nuclear centers , reports the

New York Times

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Prevent Joe Biden from negotiating with Tehran

A decision with serious consequences if it had been implemented, which is perhaps to be compared with Joe Biden's promise to resume negotiations with Iran as soon as he takes office.

This is very difficult for Donald Trump to accept, who has made Tehran his sworn enemy on the international scene.

Striking Iran just before handing over the keys to the country would therefore make it impossible for Joe Biden to relaunch negotiations with this country. 

Repatriate soldiers from several fronts

Behind Donald Trump's questioning of striking Iran, probably the Iranian uranium enrichment site based in Natanz, south of Tehran, perhaps looms the temptation of the scorched earth policy.

Especially since the Republican billionaire is considering other equally radical military decisions elsewhere in the world, such as an extremely rapid withdrawal of American troops deployed in Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia, or even an accelerated reduction in the number of soldiers stationed in Germany . 

The President also unceremoniously sacked his defense minister, Mark Esper, a few days ago because he was against the return by Christmas of more than half of the US contingent to Afghanistan.

Here again, it is possible to see in this decision to reduce the operational troops on the ground a way of reducing as much as possible the room for maneuver of his successor.