Trump’s Iran Gamble Just Turned Ugly
Trump’s war posture is now entirely physical: assets move, bases clear, smelly repairs bite, protests flare, and Iran has put retaliation on record. Right, so Donald Trump is continuing his game of chicken with Iran, and the part that’s turned ugly here – well there’s a few of them - isn’t so much the shouting, it’s the receipts, because the United States is trying to project “readiness” while the practical reality being reported is strain, friction, and timetable, and the small detail that he can’t pep-talk a massively faulty sewage system into working. The USS Gerald R. Ford, can be smelt…
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