Anyone with a brain would have told Donald Trump and Binyamin Netanyahu they were biting off more than they could chew.

We’re not seeing it so much in U.S. media, but the Times of Israel is reporting on casualties and destruction resulting from Iranian munitions penetrating Israeli defenses.[1] And to peruse the news channels on Telegram is to see a war that is only escalating.

Trump is threatening Iranian power stations,[2] which seems an unlikely way to persuade Iranians to rise up against the regime, in a likely doomed effort to persuade that regime to re-open the Strait of Hormuz.[3] Iranian citizens, indeed, are almost certainly suffering the most from this destructive war but I’m seeing little coverage of their plight.

Trump’s and Netanyahu’s war is extraordinarily unlikely to end well. Which is pretty much what anyone with a brain would have told them.

[1] Emanuel Fabian, Diana Bletter, and Nava Freiberg, “15 injured, one seriously, as Iranian cluster munitions impact in central Israel,” Times of Israel, March 22, 2026, https://www.timesofisrael.com/15-injured-one-seriously-as-iranian-cluster-munitions-impact-in-central-israel/; Times of Israel, “Almost 200 injured, 11 seriously, in Iranian missile strikes on southern cities of Arad, Dimona,” March 22, 2026, https://www.timesofisrael.com/over-100-injured-11-seriously-in-iranian-missile-strikes-on-southern-cities-of-arad-dimona/
[2] Times of Israel, “48 hours: Trump threatens to ‘obliterate’ Iran’s power plants if Strait of Hormuz remains shut,” March 22, 2026, https://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-threatens-to-obliterate-irans-power-plants-if-strait-of-hormuz-remains-shut/
[3] Times of Israel, “48 hours: Trump threatens to ‘obliterate’ Iran’s power plants if Strait of Hormuz remains shut,” March 22, 2026, https://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-threatens-to-obliterate-irans-power-plants-if-strait-of-hormuz-remains-shut/