At the dawn of the second week of the most deadly and perilous military adventure yet undertaken by Donald Trump, the picture of where the war with Iran might be headed is as cloudy, confusing, and contradictory as the rationales that Trump and his team have put forward for starting it in the first place. On the one hand, the signs that the war is intensifying are abundant and unmistakable: a rapidly escalating casualty count now approaching 2,000 dead in the region, hundreds of them children, as well as seven U.S. soldiers; spiking oil prices and wildly gyrating financial markets around the world; the installation, in the wake of the killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a U.S. airstrike, of his equally radical and theocratic son, Mojtaba Khamenei; and the White House’s refusal to rule out the possibility of the reinstitution of a military draft to fight the war. On the other hand, there is Trump, who told CBS News on Monday afternoon that “the war is very complete, pretty much”—a comment that, despite its brevity and typically mangled syntax, caused markets to rally before the close of trading.