I also think he is being coerced into this war that has been planned for decades. Many political figures are just doing the work of others in the shadows that hold more power. I think he tried to do things his own way for a while, but he is being overpowered and has finally come to the point where he is no longer in control of what he was holding on to. Sadly, it seems it is to the point that things will only progress into a global war that no one really wants. Prophecy from religious and other secular texts are being fulfilled at a rapid rate as well, so that agenda is being pushed even harder to make everything culminate to a rapid apex.