Edward Luce agreed that Trump's plan to explain away a catastrophic strategic failure is: Iran wins Hormuz, Trump ends the war, and the story becomes "European weakness" not
"American miscalculation. It's blame-shifting at geopolitical scale."
#IranWar #OperationEpicFailure #disaster #politics

Iranians killed in search of the #US missing pilot...
Not very smart guy (how surprising). It seems they are getting closer to him, and already he is abusing Iranian hospitality. It's the American way of life, after all: solve all your problems with guns, as guaranteed in the #secondammendment of a constitution that doesn't mean a thing.

#IranWar #epsteinwar #operationepicfailure #Iran #genevaconventions #internationallaw

This reminds me of The The's song "Sweet Bird of Truth" :

"This is your captain calling (with an urgent warning)
We're above the Gulf of Arabia (our altitude is falling)
And I can't hold her up (there's no time for thinking)
All hands on deck (this bird is sinking)

Across the beaches and cranes, rivers and trains
All the money I've made, bodies I've maimed"

#IranWar #TheThe #operationepicfailure

Trump waged the #IranWar "in a way that alienated partners and allies all around the world, and effectively ceded huge financial benefits to the Russians. A month from now the war can end because America couldn’t bear the disruption to global energy, helium, and fertilizer, and the Iranian regime remains in place, controlling the Strait of Hormuz, charging ships tolls to go through. It would be a war we lost": https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000010821382/what-if-iran-wins-this-war.html #OperationEpicFailure #PutinsPuppet #Trump #WorstPresidentEver
Video: Opinion | What if Iran Wins This War?

If Iran wins this war, victory “will be tremendously emboldening for a regime that has been very dangerous even at its weaker moments,” Suzanne Maloney, the director of foreign policy at the Brookings Institution, argues on “The Ezra Klein Show.”

"Trump Has Lost Control of Events in Iran":
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/opinion/iran-war-trump-irgc-hormuz.html
Iran is proving "that a degraded military and a severely damaged state do not need a weapon of mass destruction to hold its adversaries hostage."
#OperationEpicFailure #IranWar copy: @renewedresistance #politics
Opinion | Trump Has Lost Control of the Iran War

The pain inflicted on Iran has not forced it into submission. It is not clear what will.

The New York Times
#IranWar Update: "Time is running out before Pres. Trump, his party, and the American public pay an even steeper price. Trump had promised to revive the economy and keep the U.S. out of foreign conflicts. Now he has started a war he had not gotten a mandate to wage, and the economic pain may only be beginning":
https://time.com/article/2026/04/02/trump-iran-off-ramp/
#IranWar #OperationEpicFailure #military copy: @renewedresistance #politics
Inside Trump's Search for a Way Out of the Iran War

Facing political backlash, global economic shock, and the looming midterms, the President still doesn't want to get out of Iran without declaring victory.

Time
Yaroslav Trofimov: "Whoever ends up controlling the Strait of Hormuz once the guns fall silent will be the winner of the war. So far, it looks like Iran is on a path to strategic victory."
#IranWar #OperationEpicFailure #military copy: @renewedresistance #politics

RE: https://mastodon.social/@RonSupportsYou/116337374266011587

When you fire your top General during a war,
it is a sign that this war is not going well.
#IranWar = #OperationEpicFailure
#TodaysClue #disaster

Marco Rubio wrote that one of the objectives of the #IranWar is to "destroy their chances of ever having a nuclear weapon."

Jesse Lee wrote: "Iran could restart their nuclear weapons program tomorrow. North Korea could sell them one tonight." #OperationEpicFailure