And, as seen by Trump's increasingly frantic social media posts, it's clearly not him.
The increasingly bizarre rhetoric coming out of Trump and Hegseth shows the rising panic in the Trump team.
Trump is now, laughably, trying to get CHINA to join a naval coalition to force open the Straits ffs.
2 weeks into this fiasco and Trump is just realising he's in deep shit, so deep he can't now just back out.
If he packed up and went home now he'd be leaving the Straits in Iran's complete control forever after. Trump has now forced himself into negotiations while holding the weak hand.
Trump attacked Khag island after market close on Friday and made the point he intentionally did not attack the oil infrastructure to minimise the effect on the oil markets. Iran responded immediately by bombing a UAE oil installation telling Trump ‘we don’t give a fuck’.
Iran has demonstrable strategic dominance in this war by controlling shipping and the only question is what they will get for ending the war and reopening of the Straits?
An end to sanctions? A trillion dollars reparations? The removal of US military bases in the Gulf? All 3?
Trump is staring at a monumental defeat and talks nonsensical escalations because really has no cards left to play. Talk of sending 2000 US troops to Khag island to be missile attacked by Iran is just stupid. And surely he's not mad enough to use nukes? What about Israel? They have nukes too.
This was all easily foreseeable but Trump deliberately shut out anyone who tried to say it (Caine, Vance, Gabbard, et al) and it will cost him his presidency.
The humiliating loss of a war that the majority of Americans didn't want in the first place and the monumental price to pay will guarantee Trump losing the upcoming midterm elections.
The Dems then in control of both houses will waste no time in bringing impeachment hearings that will bring down the whole Trump government.
This catastrophic mistake compounded by a refusal to recognise it as such early on when he could have rectified it will be Trump's legacy for the historical record.
It’s all a great victory for the deep state and the globalist elite, they didn’t need to assassinate him after all.
TRUMP KNOWS HE’S DEFEATED! Begs Other Countries to Rescue US
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