Yes, but is it a mistake or deliberate? The Iran war has been planned since GW Bush.

Now we have a president who hates the EU and Ukraine more than he hates Russia and China and he has Greenland ambitions.

He is currently dragging out the war and Rubio was in the EU to string people along yet again.

If he drags out the war long enough, the EU might need to make concessions on certain issues.

What the EU should do but is too stupid to do: It should immediately negotiate with China and Russia to create jealousy (that is what Trump does, he understands that) and say: While you are doing your extended Iran adventure, we'll drop sanctions on Russian gas and import LNG.

That is literally the only language Trump understands and then the deep state will put him on a leash. Trump would hate nothing more than EU overtures to Putin while he is left out of the negotiations.

Sometimes you have to use all options to get things done.