He’s very much pro state

The American people wanted the government to stop spending billions of dollars on these endless conflicts in the Middle East, so it seems antithetical to America's interests on its face. This is why his approval is plummeting.

Depends which context you’re talking about

It's already billions of dollars and thousands dead. That is sufficient to be against my interests, which are peace and prosperity, and anyone who supported Trump because of his fairly consistent position of being against these conflicts is right to be pissed. I don't see it as much more complex than this: Them: Give us billions of dollars to kill a bunch of people on the other side of the planet. Us: Why? Them: You'll just have to see how it works out. Us: Fuck you. No. It seems to me that you're putting the burden of proof entirely in the wrong place. The people intending to take your money and use it to kill people are the ones who need to justify their actions, all the more so when they have previously said acting in that way is dumb and wasteful. Opposing them should be the default position.

That wouldn't be your attitude if they were pushing a new vaccine mandate. You'd be opposed to it before all the facts come in. I don't think that's because you want to be on the "good" side. Similarly, I'm not opposed to what they're doing in Iran to feel good and I don't think that's a fair criticism. Iran has been the Neocons' target, publicly, for 30 years, with all the other disasters being precursors to it. Considering the same people who championed those are championing this, I don't see how it's different than if Fauci came out with another experimental injection for all of us. It's fine to be opposed to something based on principles and experience before all the facts are known (which they won't/can't ever be, as you also discussed). Just like with the jabs, you can say "Based on what they've offered as justification, this is not a good idea." Maybe things work out totally differently and there were unstated motives, but that's not relevant to how we make decisions about the future.

Ok, in that light why shouldn't we oppose the spending on this military action? Either that involves taking our money through taxes or inflating away the value of our savings, both of which are direct effects on each of us and they've made no serious attempt to justify why it needs to be done.