@nprofile1q... I doubt he's stable enough to stick to that anyway. They can start things again any time by proxy.

Most likely he quit because they were currently out of munitions of some key type, like the anti-missile missiles (where you spend ten million bucks to shoot down fifty grand over and over), and too many multi-billion dollar planes lost won't be helping with the sale of those planes.

You gotta remember, war's a racket, the war starts because a bunch of very rich people think they're going to make bank on it, and it ends when that proves untrue even for them personally.